The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 339

‘Yes, I will,’ answered the fisher maiden, blushing very red, ‘but only on condition that we seal up the purse and the mantle in the copper vessel and throw them into the sea.’

Who acts: we · What happens: answer, blush, seal up, throw · To what, where: fisher, condition, copper vessel, mantle, sea

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	_	8 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 will	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 will	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fisher	det
10	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answered	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blushing	punct
13	blushing	blush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 answered	advcl
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 red	advmod
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blushing	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 condition	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 condition	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 condition	cc
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 condition	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 condition	case
21	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blushing	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 seal	obj
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 seal	nsubj
24	seal	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 condition	acl:relcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 seal	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 purse	det
27	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seal	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 mantle	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mantle	det
30	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 purse	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 vessel	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 vessel	det
33	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 vessel	compound
34	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seal	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 throw	cc
36	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seal	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 throw	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 sea	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sea	det
40	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 throw	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 condition	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 condition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	future		the fisher		maiden property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fisher=Eventuality
2	blush	gerund			condition	red property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seal up	present	we	condition	the copper vessel		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent that=Patient purse=Result
4	throw	infinitive	we not said here	mantle		into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into sea=Result

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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