The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 144

Then you can put Solomon’s ring upon your left thumb and give him the finishing stroke, but keep the ring on your third finger until you have come close to him, so that the monster cannot see you, else he might strike you dead with his long tail.

Who acts: you, monster, Solomon · What happens: put, give, keep, come, not see, strike · To what, where: ring, left thumb, finishing stroke, Solomon, third finger, you

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 (you, monster, Solomon), 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	4 put	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ring	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Solomon	case
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 thumb	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 thumb	nmod:poss
10	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thumb	amod
11	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stroke	det
16	finishing	finishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stroke	compound
17	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 keep	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 keep	cc
20	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ring	det
22	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 finger	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 finger	nmod:poss
25	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 finger	amod
26	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obl
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	30 come	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 keep	advcl
31	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 come	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 close	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 see	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 see	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 monster	det
38	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 see	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 see	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 see	advmod
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 keep	conj
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 see	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 strike	punct
44	else	else	ADV	_	47 strike	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 strike	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 strike	aux
47	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 see	conj
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 strike	obj
49	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 strike	xcomp
50	with	with	ADP	_	53 tail	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 tail	nmod:poss
52	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 tail	amod
53	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 strike	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	can	you	Solomon's ring		your left thumb	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme upon thumb=Destination
2	give	infinitive	you not said here	the finishing stroke	Solomon				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stroke=Theme
3	keep	infinitive		the ring		your third finger			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Location
4	come	present · perfect	you					close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not see	can	the monster	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
6	strike	might	Solomon	you				with Solomon's long tail; dead, else property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with tail=Instrument

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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