The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 34

The old woman said, ‘If you would help yourselves, one of you must go into the wood, and there he will come upon a tumble-down building of rocks which looks like a little house.

Who acts: old woman, you, One, tumble building · What happens: say, help, go, come, look · To what, where: yourselves, wood, tumble building · 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 (old woman, you, One, tumble building), 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 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 help	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 help	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
11	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 help	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 help	obl
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 one	acl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 come	expl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	conj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 building	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 building	det
29	tumble	tumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 building	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 down	punct
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 tumble	compound:prt
32	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 rocks	case
34	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 building	nmod
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 looks	nsubj
36	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 building	acl:relcl
37	like	like	ADP	_	40 house	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 house	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 house	amod
40	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 looks	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help a condition, not said to happen	would	you	yourselves		one obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Beneficiary
3	go	must	you		the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
4	come	future	One		a tumble building of rocks; there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon building=Location
5	look	present	a tumble building of rocks			like a little house	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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