The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 66
But you must tell me truly who you are and how you came to this place, where no mortal has ever set foot before.’
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, be, come, set · To what, where: me, place, mortal · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 7 who | advmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 who | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 who | cop |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 who | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 foot | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 set | advmod |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 mortal | det |
| 20 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | aux |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 set | advmod |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 foot | amod |
| 24 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | appos |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 foot | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | must | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | you | this place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | set | present · perfect · passive | no mortal | ever | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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