The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 13

‘And if I,’ said Stana, ‘should be the one chosen, I would weave my husband a shirt which will keep him unscathed when he fights with dragons; when he goes through water he will never even be wet; or if through fire, it will not scorch him.’

Who acts: I, shirt, husband · What happens: say, be, choose, weave, keep, fight · To what, where: one, shirt, husband, water, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shirt, husband), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 I	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 I	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Stana	Stana	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 one	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 one	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	conj
15	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 one	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 weave	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 weave	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 weave	aux
19	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weave	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shirt	det
23	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weave	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 keep	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 keep	aux
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 shirt	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 keep	obj
28	unscathed	unscathed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 keep	xcomp
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 fights	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fights	nsubj
31	fights	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 keep	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 dragons	case
33	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fights	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 goes	punct
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 goes	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 goes	nsubj
37	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
38	through	through	ADP	_	39 water	case
39	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 goes	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 wet	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 wet	aux
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	45 wet	advmod
43	even	even	ADV	_	45 wet	advmod
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 wet	cop
45	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 goes	parataxis
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 scorch	punct
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 scorch	cc
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 scorch	mark
49	through	through	ADP	_	50 fire	case
50	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 scorch	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 fire	punct
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 scorch	nsubj
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 scorch	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 scorch	advmod
55	scorch	scorch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 goes	conj
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 scorch	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	should	I not said here	the one				tree rules
3	choose	participle		the one not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	weave	would	I	a shirt	my husband			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent husband=Beneficiary shirt=Product
5	keep	future	a shirt	husband			unscathed property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	fight	present	husband				with dragons	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dragon=Co-Agent
7	go	present	husband			water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through water=Initial_Location
8	not is	future	husband				wet property	tree rules
9	not scorch a condition, not said to happen	future	shirt	husband		fire		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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