The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 188
I will bring you every day enough food to prevent you dying of hunger, but you need never hope for freedom any more.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: bring, prevent, die, need, not hope · To what, where: enough food, 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 prevent | mark |
| 10 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bring | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 prevent | obj |
| 12 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 prevent | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hunger | case |
| 14 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dying | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 need | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 need | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 need | nsubj |
| 18 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | conj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 hope | advmod |
| 20 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 need | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 freedom | case |
| 22 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hope | obl |
| 23 | any | any | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 hope | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | I | enough food | you | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination food=Theme | ||
| 2 | prevent | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | I not said here | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | ||||
| 4 | need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not hope not said to happen | present | you not said here | for freedom | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for freedom=Theme |
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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