The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 55

In order to prevent this, he would make a little cut in the bark, just large enough for them to put their fingers in, and with this help he could manage to tear the tree in two, so that the heart should run no risk of damage.

Who acts: youth, notes, heart · What happens: prevent, make, put, manage, tear, run · To what, where: this, little cut, bark, fingers, tree, two

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, notes, heart), 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	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 prevent	mark
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	to	to	PART	_	4 prevent	mark
4	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 prevent	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 prevent	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cut	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cut	amod
12	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bark	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bark	det
15	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 large	punct
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	conj
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 put	mark
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 put	mark
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 large	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fingers	nmod:poss
25	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 put	obj
26	in	in	ADV	_	23 put	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 manage	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 manage	cc
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 help	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 help	det
31	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 manage	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 manage	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 manage	aux
34	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 put	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 tear	mark
36	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 manage	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tree	det
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tear	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 two	case
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 tear	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 run	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	47 run	advmod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 run	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 heart	det
45	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 run	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 run	aux
47	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	parataxis
48	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	49 risk	det
49	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 run	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 damage	case
51	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 risk	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive	youth not said here	this			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer this=Theme
2	make	would	youth	a little cut	the bark		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Product
3	put	to-infinitive	notes = note	notes's fingers			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal
4	manage	could	youth			with this help	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tear	to-infinitive	youth not said here	the tree	two		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
6	run	should	the heart	no risk of damage			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory
7	risk			damage			nom risk «state 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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