The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 58
But the fox said, ‘My dear daughter, your joy is in vain, because, let me tell you, this blood is of no earthly use to you unless you add some of mine to it,’ and with these words he took to his heels.
Who acts: fox, joy, me, blood, you, your · What happens: say, be, let, tell, add, take · To what, where: me, you, some, blood, words, heels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, joy, me, blood), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 daughter | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 daughter | amod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vain | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 joy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vain | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 vain | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vain | case |
| 15 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 daughter | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 let | mark |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 because | punct |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 vain | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | iobj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 use | punct |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 blood | det |
| 25 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 use | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 use | cop |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 use | case |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 use | det |
| 29 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 use | amod |
| 30 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 use | nmod |
| 33 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 35 add | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 add | nsubj |
| 35 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 add | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 mine | case |
| 38 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 some | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 add | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 add | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 words | cc |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 words | case |
| 45 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 words | det |
| 46 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | conj |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 took | nsubj |
| 48 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 words | acl:relcl |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 heels | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 heels | nmod:poss |
| 51 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 took | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | your joy | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | me not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | this blood | you | of no earthly use | tree rules | |||
| 6 | add speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | you | some | blood | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent some=Patient to it=Co-Patient | |||
| 7 | take | past | fox | this words not said here | fox's heels | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to heel=Destination | |||
| 8 | joy | your | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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