The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 46

In a short time he returned and said, ‘My dear Prince, the horse is most securely watched, but I have bewitched all the guards, and if you will only be careful not to touch the wall yourself, or let the horse touch it as you go out, there is no danger and the game is yours.

Who acts: horse, I, you, danger, game · What happens: return, say, watch, bewitch, be, not touch · To what, where: short time, horse, guards, wall, door, yours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, I, you, danger), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 watched	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 returned	nsubj
6	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 time	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 returned	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Prince	punct
11	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 Prince	nmod:poss
12	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Prince	amod
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 watched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 watched	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 watched	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 watched	aux:pass
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 securely	advmod
19	securely	securely	ADV	_	20 watched	advmod
20	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bewitched	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 bewitched	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 bewitched	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 bewitched	aux
25	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 watched	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 guards	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 guards	det
28	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bewitched	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 careful	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 careful	cc
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 careful	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 careful	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 careful	aux
34	only	only	ADV	_	36 careful	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 careful	cop
36	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 watched	conj
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 touch	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 touch	mark
39	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 careful	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wall	det
41	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 touch	obj
42	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 touch	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 let	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 let	cc
45	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 watched	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 horse	det
47	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 let	obj
48	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 let	parataxis
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 touch	obj
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 go	mark
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 go	nsubj
52	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 is	advcl
53	out	out	ADV	_	52 go	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 go	punct
55	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	56 is	expl
56	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 touch	advcl
57	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	58 danger	det
58	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 is	nsubj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 yours	cc
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 game	det
61	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 yours	nsubj
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 yours	cop
63	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 danger	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	horse	a short time not said here				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	horse not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	watch	present · passive		the horse		time	My dear Prince obl; securely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	bewitch	present · perfect	I	all guards				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guard=Experiencer
5	is a condition, not said to happen	future	you				careful property	tree rules
6	not touch	to-infinitive	you not said here	the wall			yourself obl	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme
7	let	infinitive		the horse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
8	touch	present		door				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
9	go out	present	you				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	be	present	no danger		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	is a	present	the game	yours				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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