The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 53

‘Will the youth have the sense not to let himself be caught in her toils?’

Who acts: youth, length, maiden · What happens: have, not let, catch, toil · To what, where: sense, length, toils

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 (youth, length, maiden), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sense	det
7	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 let	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 let	mark
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 let	obj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 caught	aux:pass
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 let	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 toils	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 toils	nmod:poss
16	toils	toil	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 caught	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	future	the youth	the sense		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	not let	to-infinitive		length		tree rules
3	catch	infinitive · passive	length not said here		maiden's toils	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»
4	toil		maiden			nom toil «act intransitive»: poss=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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