The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 19

When you have them safely, look about till you see a cypress tree, whose roots are of brass, whose boughs are of silver, and whose leaves are of gold.

Who acts: you, roots, boughs, leaves · What happens: have, look, see, be · To what, where: horses, cypress tree

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, roots, boughs, leaves), 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 have	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 look	advcl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	obj
5	safely	safely	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 look	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
13	cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brass	punct
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 roots	nmod:poss
17	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 brass	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 brass	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 brass	case
20	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 silver	punct
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 boughs	nmod:poss
23	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 silver	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 silver	cop
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 silver	case
26	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gold	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gold	cc
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 leaves	nmod:poss
30	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 gold	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 gold	cop
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 gold	case
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	horses = horse	safely property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	look	imperative	you not said here		about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	present	you	a cypress tree and brass and silver		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	is	present	brass's roots		of brass	tree rules
5	is	present	silver's boughs		of silver	tree rules
6	is	present	gold's leaves		of gold	tree rules

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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