The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 36

The other replied, ‘I do not know, certainly, where she is at present, but in three nights from now she will come to the spring to wash her face, as she does every month when the moon is full, in order that she may never grow old nor wrinkled, but may always keep the bloom of youth.’

Who acts: I, trouble, three nights, moon, youth · What happens: reply, not know, be, come, wash, do · To what, where: face, order, bloom

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, trouble, three nights, moon), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 replied	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 replied	amod
3	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 certainly	punct
11	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	9 know	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 present	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 present	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 present	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 present	cop
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 present	case
17	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 certainly	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 nights	case
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 nights	nummod
22	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 come	nsubj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 now	case
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 nights	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 come	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 spring	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spring	det
30	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 wash	mark
32	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	advcl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 face	nmod:poss
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wash	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 does	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 does	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 does	nsubj
38	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 wash	advcl
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 month	det
40	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 does	obl:unmarked
41	when	when	SCONJ	_	45 full	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 moon	det
43	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 full	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 full	cop
45	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 does	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 order	punct
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 order	case
48	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 full	obl
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 grow	mark
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 grow	nsubj
51	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 grow	aux
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 grow	advmod
53	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 order	acl
54	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 grow	xcomp
55	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	56 wrinkled	cc
56	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 old	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 keep	punct
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 keep	cc
59	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 keep	aux
60	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	61 keep	advmod
61	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 wash	conj
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 bloom	det
63	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 keep	obj
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 youth	case
65	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 bloom	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
67	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle						vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not know	present · do-support	I				certainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	trouble				present property	tree rules
4	come	future	three nights			spring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wash	to-infinitive	three nights not said here	trouble's face				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
6	do	present	trouble			month		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	the moon		order		full property	tree rules
8	not grow	may	trouble	order not said here			old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme
9	wrinkle	participle	trouble not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	keep	may	three nights not said here	the bloom of youth			always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloom=Theme
11	bloom		youth					nom bloom «process intransitive»: of=agent

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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