The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 111

‘I will let down a rope, and if you tie it tightly round you, I will draw it up.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: let down, tie, draw up · To what, where: rope

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rope	det
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 draw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 draw	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 tie	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tie	nsubj
12	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 draw	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tie	obj
14	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	12 tie	advmod
15	round	round	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tie	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tie	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 draw	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 draw	aux
20	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 draw	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 draw	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let down	future	I	a rope		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
2	tie a condition, not said to happen	present	you	rope	round you; tightly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	draw up	future	I	rope		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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