The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 43
Till you have done so, I don’t let your beard out of my hands.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, not let · To what, where: beard, hands
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 4 done | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 let | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beard | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 hands | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hands | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 let | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not let | present · do-support | I | your beard | my hands | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Theme |
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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