The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 102

When you see that we are right above the dragon cut off his biggest head, wipe the blood off the sword, and put it back clean in the sheath before we touch earth again.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: see, be, cut off, wipe, put back, touch · To what, where: biggest head, blood, sword, sheath, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 see	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wipe	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 cut	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 cut	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dragon	cop
7	right	right	ADV	_	10 dragon	advmod
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 dragon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dragon	det
10	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	nsubj
11	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 cut	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
14	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 head	amod
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
17	wipe	wipe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 blood	det
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wipe	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	22 sword	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sword	det
22	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wipe	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 wipe	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	25 put	advmod
28	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 put	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 sheath	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sheath	det
31	sheath	sheath	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 touch	mark
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 touch	nsubj
34	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 put	advcl
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 touch	obj
36	again	again	ADV	_	34 touch	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 wipe	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 wipe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is	present					above the dragon; right property	tree rules
3	cut off	past	we	dragon's biggest head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
4	wipe	imperative	you not said here	the blood	the sword			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent blood=Theme off sword=Trajectory
5	put back	infinitive	you not said here	sword	the sheath		clean property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sheath=Destination
6	touch	present	we	earth		again		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-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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