The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 36

But the young King gave the three snake-leaves to a servant, saying to him, ‘Keep them carefully for me, and always carry them with you; who knows but that they may help us in a time of need!’

Who acts: young King, leaves · What happens: give, say, keep, carry, know, help · To what, where: three snake leaves, servant, King, leaves, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young King, leaves), 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 gave	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 King	amod
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leaves	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 leaves	nummod
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaves	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snake	punct
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 servant	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 servant	det
13	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gave	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saying	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Keep	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Keep	punct
20	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saying	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 Keep	obj
22	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	20 Keep	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 Keep	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carry	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 carry	cc
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 carry	advmod
28	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gave	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carry	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 carry	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 knows	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 knows	nsubj
34	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	parataxis
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 help	cc
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 help	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 help	nsubj
38	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 help	aux
39	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 knows	conj
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 help	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 time	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 time	det
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 help	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 need	case
45	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 time	nmod
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 help	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the young King	the three snake leaves	a servant			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme to servant=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the young King not said here		King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	keep	infinitive	the young King not said here	leaves = leaf			for me; carefully property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	carry	infinitive	the young King not said here	leaves = leaf			with you; always property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	know	present						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	help	may	leaves = leaf		us	time		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

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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