The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 21

But now about your son: I have saved him from a great many disagreeable things, but you must let me take him away and take care of him, and you will not see him again until he is all covered with fur!’

Who acts: I, you, me · What happens: save, let, take away, take, not see, cover · To what, where: son, great many disagreeable things, me, care

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. 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, me), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 son	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 son	advmod
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 son	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 saved	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 saved	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saved	aux
9	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 son	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saved	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	16 things	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 things	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	amod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	amod
15	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	amod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saved	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 let	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 let	aux
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saved	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	obj
25	away	away	ADV	_	23 take	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
28	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 see	cc
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 see	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 see	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 see	advmod
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 see	obj
38	again	again	ADV	_	36 see	advmod
39	until	until	SCONJ	_	43 covered	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 covered	nsubj:pass
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 covered	aux:pass
42	all	all	ADV	_	43 covered	advmod
43	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 see	ccomp
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 fur	case
45	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 covered	obl
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present · perfect	I	son	a great many disagreeable things			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from thing=Source
2	let	must	you	me				tree rules
3	take away	infinitive	me not said here	son			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	take	infinitive	me not said here	care			of son	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of he=Initial_Location
5	not see	future	you	son		again		tree rules
6	cover	present · passive		son			with fur; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fur=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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