The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 97

‘If you can take care of my mare for three days I will give you a horse for wages, but if you let her stray you will lose your head’; and as she spoke she led him into a courtyard surrounded with palings, and on every post a man’s head was stuck.

Who acts: you, I, mare, head · What happens: take, give, let, stray, lose, speak · To what, where: care, horse, you, mare, head, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, mare, head), 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	_	5 take	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 take	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 give	advcl
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mare	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mare	nmod:poss
9	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 wages	case
20	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 let	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 let	nsubj
25	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 give	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	stray	stray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 lose	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lose	aux
30	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stray	ccomp
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lose	obj
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 stray	punct
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 spoke	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 spoke	cc
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 spoke	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 spoke	nsubj
38	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 give	parataxis
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 led	nsubj
40	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 spoke	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 led	obj
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 courtyard	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 courtyard	det
44	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 led	obl
45	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 courtyard	acl
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 palings	case
47	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 surrounded	obl:agent
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 stuck	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 stuck	cc
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 post	case
51	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	52 post	det
52	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stuck	obl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 man	det
54	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 head	nmod:poss
55	’s	's	PART	_	54 man	case
56	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 post	nmod
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 stuck	cop
58	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 give	parataxis
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen	can	you	care			day	of my mare	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of mare=Initial_Location
2	give	future	I	a horse	you			for wages	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient horse=Theme for wage=Asset
3	let a condition, not said to happen	present	you	mare					tree rules
4	stray	infinitive	mare not said here						tree rules
5	lose	future	you	your head					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality
6	speak speech: other	past	head						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lead	past	head	servant		a courtyard			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into courtyard=Destination
8	surround	participle		a courtyard not said here					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
9	is	past				every post a man's head		stuck property	tree rules

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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