The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 138

Then he gave the youth the following instructions how to overcome the Dragon of the North: ‘You must have an iron horse cast, which must have little wheels under each foot.

Who acts: magician, You · What happens: give, follow, overcome, have · To what, where: youth, Dragon, horse cast, little wheels, foot

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 instructions	det
7	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 instructions	amod
8	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 overcome	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 overcome	mark
11	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dragon	det
13	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 overcome	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 North	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 North	det
16	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Dragon	nmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
19	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	conj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cast	det
23	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 horse	compound
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cast	compound
25	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 have	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	conj
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wheels	amod
31	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
32	under	under	ADP	_	34 foot	case
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 foot	det
34	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wheels	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	past	magician	the youth		then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient instruction=Theme
2	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	overcome	to-infinitive	magician not said here	the Dragon of the North			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dragon=Theme
4	have	must	You	a horse cast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cast=Patient
5	have	must		little wheels	each foot		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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