The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 19

Then the hand of the person who has touched the bird will be held as in a vice, and nothing will set it free, unless you touch it with this little stick which I will make you a present of.

Who acts: person, nothing, you, little stick · What happens: touch, hold, set, make · To what, where: bird, hand, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, nothing, you, little stick), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 held	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hand	det
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hand	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 touched	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 touched	aux
9	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 person	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	obj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 held	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 held	aux:pass
14	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 vice	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 vice	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 vice	det
18	vice	vice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 set	cc
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 set	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 set	aux
23	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 held	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	obj
25	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 set	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 touch	punct
27	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	29 touch	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 touch	nsubj
29	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 set	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 touch	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 stick	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 stick	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stick	amod
34	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 touch	obl
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 make	nsubj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 make	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 make	aux
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 stick	acl:relcl
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 make	obj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 present	det
41	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	xcomp
42	of	of	ADP	_	41 present	case
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present · perfect	the person	the bird			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-Theme
2	hold	future · passive		the hand of the person	then	as a vice	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	set	future	nothing	bird		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
4	touch a condition, not said to happen	present	you	bird		with this little stick	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with stick=Instrument
5	make	future	this little stick	you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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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