The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 82

I shall lock the door, so that no one can get in to assist you, and I shall return at the appointed time to see how you have succeeded.’

Who acts: I, one, you · What happens: lock, get in, assist, return, appoint, see · To what, where: door, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lock	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lock	aux
3	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lock	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 get	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lock	advcl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 assist	mark
15	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	xcomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 assist	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 return	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 return	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 return	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 return	aux
21	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lock	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 time	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
24	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 return	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 time	acl
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 succeeded	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 succeeded	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 succeeded	aux
31	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 see	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lock	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 lock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	lock	shall	I	the door			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	get in	can	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	assist	to-infinitive	no one not said here		you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
4	return	shall	I			time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	appoint	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	see	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	succeed	present · perfect	you				vn succeed-74-1 «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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