The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 72

‘Fasten the horse to my neck and tie the clothes to the back of the horse, and be sure they are fixed firmly, as I shall go faster than he does.’

Who acts: you, I, enough · What happens: fasten, tie, be, fix, go, do · To what, where: horse, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. 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, enough), 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	_	2 Fasten	punct
2	Fasten	fasten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fasten	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fasten	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tie	cc
9	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Fasten	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clothes	det
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 tie	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 back	det
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tie	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 horse	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 back	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sure	cc
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sure	cop
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Fasten	parataxis
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fixed	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fixed	aux:pass
24	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sure	ccomp
25	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	24 fixed	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 go	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sure	conj
31	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 go	advmod
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 does	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 does	nsubj
34	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 go	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Fasten	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fasten	imperative	you not said here	the horse	to my neck	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to neck=Co-Patient
2	tie	infinitive	you not said here	the clothes	to the back of the horse	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient to back=Co-Patient
3	is	infinitive			sure property	tree rules
4	fix	present · passive		horse	firmly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
5	go	shall	I		fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	present	enough			vn act-114-1 «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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