The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 50

Here he was told, ‘It will never do for you to ride through the forest, it is full of robbers, and you’re sure to come to grief, especially when they see that you and your horse are golden.

Who acts: world, you, children · What happens: tell, not do, ride, be, come, see · To what, where: brother, forest, grief · 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 (world, you, children), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	parataxis
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 ride	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 ride	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ride	mark
14	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 do	advcl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ride	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 full	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 full	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 full	cop
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 do	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 robbers	case
23	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 full	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ’re	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ’re	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 ’re	nsubj
27	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ’re	xcomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 come	mark
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sure	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 grief	case
32	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 see	punct
34	especially	especially	ADV	_	37 see	advmod
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 see	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 see	nsubj
37	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 come	advcl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 golden	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 golden	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 horse	cc
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 horse	nmod:poss
42	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 you	conj
43	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 golden	cop
44	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 see	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		brother	here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	not do	future	world				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ride	to-infinitive	you		the forest		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory
4	is	present	world			of robbers; full property	tree rules
5	does	present	you			sure property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	to-infinitive	you not said here		grief		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grief=Initial_Location
7	see	present	children = child			especially property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	present	you			golden property	tree rules

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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