The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 35

There is only one way of escaping the danger, and that is, when you go to milk her, take with you a pan of burning coals and a pair of tongs.

Who acts: one way, that · What happens: be, escape, take, burn · To what, where: danger, pan

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one way, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 way	nummod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 escaping	mark
7	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 way	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 danger	det
9	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escaping	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 go	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 go	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 go	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 milk	case
19	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 take	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pan	det
26	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 coals	case
28	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 coals	amod
29	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pan	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pair	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pair	det
32	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 coals	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 tongs	case
34	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pair	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	one way		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	escape	gerund	one way not said here	the danger			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial_Location
3	is	present	that			to milk; go property	tree rules
4	take	infinitive	that not said here	a pan of burning coals and a pair of tongs		with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme
5	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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