The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 16

As the last one flies past you, catch hold of its robe of feathers, and refuse to give it back till the dove has promised you three things.’

Who acts: last one, you · What happens: fly, catch, refuse, not give back, promise, hold · To what, where: hold, dove, you, robe

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 flies	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flies	nsubj
5	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 catch	advcl
6	past	past	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 flies	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 catch	punct
9	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catch	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 robe	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 robe	nmod:poss
13	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 feathers	case
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 robe	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 refuse	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 refuse	cc
18	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 catch	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 refuse	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 give	obj
22	back	back	ADV	_	20 give	advmod
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 promised	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dove	det
25	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 promised	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 promised	aux
27	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 give	advcl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 promised	iobj
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 things	nummod
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 promised	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 catch	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fly	present	the last one			past you	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past you=Trajectory
2	catch	imperative	you not said here	hold of hold's robe of feathers			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
3	refuse	infinitive	you not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not give back	to-infinitive	you not said here	hold			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	present · perfect · passive		the dove	you		tree rules
6	hold			hold's robe of feathers			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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