The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 59

‘Now,’ continued the wolf, ‘I am going to turn myself into a boat full of the most beautiful silken merchandise, and you must jump boldly into the boat, and steer with my tail in your hand right out into the open sea.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: continue, go, turn, jump, steer · To what, where: wolf, myself, boat, hand

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 (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 continued	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 continued	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 turn	mark
14	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 turn	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 boat	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 boat	det
18	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turn	obl
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boat	amod
20	of	of	ADP	_	25 merchandise	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 merchandise	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 beautiful	advmod
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 merchandise	amod
24	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 merchandise	amod
25	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 full	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 jump	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 jump	cc
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 jump	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 jump	aux
30	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 continued	conj
31	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 jump	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 boat	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 boat	det
34	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jump	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 steer	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 steer	cc
37	steer	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 continued	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 tail	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 tail	nmod:poss
40	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 steer	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 hand	case
42	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hand	nmod:poss
43	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 steer	obl
44	right	right	ADV	_	45 out	advmod
45	out	out	ADV	_	37 steer	advmod
46	into	into	ADP	_	49 sea	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sea	det
48	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 sea	amod
49	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 steer	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past		the wolf		now		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
2	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself	a boat			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent myself=Theme into boat=Trajectory
4	jump	must	you		the boat		boldly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination
5	steer	present			your hand		with my tail; into the open sea; out property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination

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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