The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 15
‘If you will serve me for seven years,’ said the dragon, I will lead you through the midst of the army so that no one shall catch you.’
Who acts: you, I, one · What happens: serve, say, lead, catch · To what, where: me, dragon, you, midst · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, one), 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 serve | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 serve | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 serve | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 serve | aux |
| 5 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 serve | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 serve | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 serve | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lead | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 lead | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lead | aux |
| 18 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 serve | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 lead | obj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 midst | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 midst | det |
| 22 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lead | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 army | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 midst | nmod |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 catch | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 catch | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 catch | aux |
| 31 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lead | advcl |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 catch | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 serve | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | future | you | me | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lead | future | I | you | the midst of the army | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme through midst=Destination | |||
| 4 | catch | shall | no one | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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