The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 72

The youth hesitated for a little, but presently he heard the birds saying from the top of the tree, ‘Go where she calls you, but take care to give no blood, or you will sell your soul.’

Who acts: youth, birds, maiden, you · What happens: hesitate, hear, say, go, call, take · To what, where: youth, birds, top, you, care, blood · 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 (youth, birds, maiden, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
3	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 youth	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 little	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hesitated	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
9	presently	presently	ADV	_	11 heard	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obj
14	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 birds	acl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saying	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 top	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Go	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Go	punct
23	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	ccomp
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 calls	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 calls	nsubj
26	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Go	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 calls	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 take	cc
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 heard	ccomp
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 give	mark
33	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 take	csubj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 blood	det
35	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sell	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 sell	cc
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 sell	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 sell	aux
40	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 heard	ccomp
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 soul	nmod:poss
42	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sell	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 sell	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hesitate	participle		the youth not said here			for a little	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	the youth	the birds			presently property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the birds not said here			the top of the tree		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call	present	maiden		you			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	take	infinitive		care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
7	give	to-infinitive		no blood				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme
8	sell	future	you	your soul				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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