The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 31

‘Now listen,’ said the fish, ‘if you’ll throw me back into the water, I’ll give you back the castle and the cupboard with all its good things; but now take care, and don’t for your life betray where you got them, or you’ll just lose them again.’

Who acts: fish, you, I · What happens: listen, say, throw back, give back, take, not do · To what, where: me, water, castle, you, care, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, you, I), 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	_	3 listen	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 listen	advmod
3	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 throw	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 throw	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 throw	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 throw	nsubj
13	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 throw	aux
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 throw	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	14 throw	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 throw	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	back	back	ADP	_	23 give	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 castle	det
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cupboard	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cupboard	det
30	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 castle	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	35 things	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 things	det:predet
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 things	nmod:poss
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 things	amod
35	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cupboard	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 take	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 take	cc
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 take	advmod
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
40	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 do	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 do	cc
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 take	conj
44	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 do	advmod
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 life	case
46	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 life	nmod:poss
47	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 betray	obl
48	betray	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 do	parataxis
49	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 got	advmod
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 got	nsubj
51	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 betray	ccomp
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 got	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 lose	punct
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 lose	cc
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 lose	nsubj
56	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 lose	aux
57	just	just	ADV	_	58 lose	advmod
58	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 take	conj
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 lose	obj
60	again	again	ADV	_	58 lose	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 take	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	infinitive				now		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the fish					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw back a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me			into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into water=Result
4	give back	future	I	the castle and the cupboard with castle's good things	you			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient castle=Theme
5	take	infinitive		care		now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	not do	infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	betray	present					for your life	tree rules
8	get	past	you	fish				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
9	lose	future	you	fish		again		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

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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