The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 12

In front of him stands a golden bowl filled with goats’ milk, and if you can manage to dip a piece of bread in this milk, and eat it before you are obliged to fly, you will understand all the secrets of the night that are hidden from other men.

Who acts: you · What happens: stand, fill, manage, dip, eat, oblige · To what, where: golden bowl, front, piece, milk, you, secrets

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	In	in	ADP	_	2 front	case
2	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stands	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 front	nmod
5	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bowl	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bowl	amod
8	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stands	obj
9	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bowl	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 milk	case
11	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 milk	nmod:poss
12	’	's	PART	_	11 goats	case
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 filled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 manage	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 manage	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 manage	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 manage	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 manage	aux
19	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stands	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 dip	mark
21	dip	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 manage	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 piece	det
23	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dip	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 bread	case
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 piece	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 milk	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 milk	det
28	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dip	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 eat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 eat	cc
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 manage	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 eat	obj
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 obliged	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 obliged	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 obliged	aux:pass
36	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 eat	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 fly	mark
38	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 obliged	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 understand	punct
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 understand	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 understand	aux
42	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 manage	parataxis
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 secrets	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 secrets	det
45	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 understand	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 night	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 night	det
48	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 secrets	nmod
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 hidden	nsubj:pass
50	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 hidden	aux:pass
51	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 secrets	acl:relcl
52	from	from	ADP	_	54 men	case
53	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 men	amod
54	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 hidden	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present		a golden bowl	front of man		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme in front=Destination
2	fill	participle		a golden bowl not said here		with goats's milk	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with milk=Instrument
3	manage a condition, not said to happen	can	you				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	dip	to-infinitive	you not said here	a piece of bread	this milk		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in milk=Trajectory
5	eat	infinitive	you not said here	piece			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	oblige	present · passive		you			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	fly	to-infinitive					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	understand	future	you	all secrets of the night			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
9	hide	present · passive		all secrets of the night		from other men	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from man=Beneficiary

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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