The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 43

The King desired him to dive after it, adding, ‘If you return without it you will be thrown back into the lake time after time, till you are drowned in its depths.’

Who acts: King, you · What happens: desire, dive, add, return, throw back, drown · To what, where: youth, you, depths

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 desired	nsubj
3	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 desired	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dive	mark
6	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 desired	xcomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dive	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 adding	punct
10	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dive	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thrown	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 thrown	punct
13	If	if	SCONJ	_	15 return	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 return	nsubj
15	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 thrown	advcl
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 return	obl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 thrown	nsubj:pass
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 thrown	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 thrown	aux:pass
21	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 adding	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 thrown	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 time	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 time	compound
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thrown	obl
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 time	case
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thrown	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 drowned	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 drowned	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 drowned	nsubj:pass
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 drowned	aux:pass
33	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 thrown	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 depths	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 depths	nmod:poss
36	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 drowned	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 desired	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	desire	past	the King	youth				tree rules
2	dive not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here			after lake		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	add speech: assert	gerund	the King not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	return a condition, not said to happen	present	you				without lake	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	throw back	future · passive		you		time		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	drown	present · passive		you	lake's depths			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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