The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 82

Bind one end of this silk thread to the left fore-leg of the calf, and the other end to the little toe of your left foot, so that the calf will never be able to leave your side, whether you walk, stand, or lie.’

Who acts: you, other end · What happens: bind, not be, leave, walk, stand, lie · To what, where: one end, side

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 (you, other end), 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	Bind	bind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 end	nummod
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bind	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 thread	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 thread	det
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thread	compound
7	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	13 leg	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leg	det
10	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leg	amod
11	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leg	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 fore	punct
13	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bind	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 calf	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 calf	det
16	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leg	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 able	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 able	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 end	amod
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 able	nsubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 toe	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 toe	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 toe	amod
25	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 end	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 foot	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 foot	nmod:poss
28	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 foot	amod
29	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 toe	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 able	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 able	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 calf	det
34	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 able	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 able	aux
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 able	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	cop
38	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bind	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 leave	mark
40	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	xcomp
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 side	nmod:poss
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 leave	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 walk	punct
44	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	46 walk	mark
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 walk	nsubj
46	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 leave	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 stand	punct
48	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 walk	xcomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 lie	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 lie	cc
51	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 stand	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Bind	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Bind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bind	imperative	you not said here	one end of this silk thread	to the left fore leg of the calf	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent end=Patient to leg=Co-Patient
2	not is	future	the other end to the little toe of your left foot		able property	tree rules
3	leave	to-infinitive	the other end to the little toe of your left foot not said here	your side		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme
4	walk	present	you			tree rules
5	stand	infinitive	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lie	infinitive	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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