The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 34

It would be nice of you to make a poor fellow happy; therefore you may tell your father that it was I who slew the dragon, and if you refuse to, I will throw you into the river, and no one will be any the wiser, for they will think the dragon has devoured you.’

Who acts: deliverer, you, I, one, carriage · What happens: be, make, tell, slay, refuse, throw · To what, where: father, I, dragon, you, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deliverer, you, I, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nice	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 nice	cop
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 nice	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nice	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 happy	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 happy	amod
11	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 happy	amod
12	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	17 tell	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nice	parataxis
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 slew	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 I	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 I	cop
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 slew	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 slew	nsubj
25	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dragon	det
27	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slew	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 throw	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 throw	cc
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 refuse	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 refuse	nsubj
32	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 throw	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 refuse	case
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 refuse	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 throw	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 throw	aux
37	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tell	conj
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 throw	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 river	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 river	det
41	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 throw	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 wiser	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 wiser	cc
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 one	det
45	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wiser	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 wiser	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 wiser	cop
48	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	50 wiser	det
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 wiser	det
50	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 tell	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 think	punct
52	for	for	SCONJ	_	55 think	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 think	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 think	aux
55	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tell	conj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 dragon	det
57	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 devoured	nsubj:pass
58	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 devoured	aux
59	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 think	ccomp
60	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 devoured	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	deliverer			of you; nice property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	deliverer not said here			happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	tell speech: assert	may	you		your father	therefore property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is a	past	deliverer	I			tree rules
5	slay	past	I	the dragon			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient
6	refuse a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	throw	future	I	you		into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer you=Theme into river=Result
8	is	future	no one			wise property	tree rules
9	think speech: other	future	carriage				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	devour	present · perfect · passive		the dragon			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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