The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 22

‘Your trouble is all in vain, King Kojata; I will only let you go on condition that you give me something you know nothing about, and which you will find on your return home.’

Who acts: trouble, I, you, Your · What happens: be, let, go, give, know, find · To what, where: you, condition, me, nothing, return

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, I, you, Your), 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	_	7 vain	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 trouble	nmod:poss
3	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vain	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 vain	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 vain	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 vain	case
7	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 King	punct
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 vain	appos
10	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 King	flat
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 let	aux
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 vain	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 condition	case
19	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 give	obj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
22	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 condition	acl:relcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 give	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 something	acl:relcl
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 know	obj
28	about	about	ADV	_	27 nothing	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 find	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 find	cc
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 find	obj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 find	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 find	aux
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 vain	parataxis
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 return	case
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 return	nmod:poss
37	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obl
38	home	home	ADV	_	34 find	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 vain	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your trouble				all, vain property	tree rules
2	let	future	I	you				tree rules
3	go	infinitive	you not said here			condition		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on condition=Location
4	give	present	you	condition	me			tree rules
5	know	present	you	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	find	future	you			your return	home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
7	trouble		Your					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	return		your					nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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