Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 52

As for the fiery breath of these animals, I have a charmed ointment here, which will prevent you from being burned up, and cure you if you chance to be a little scorched."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: have, charm, prevent, burn up, cure, chance · To what, where: charmed ointment, you, little

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 breath	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 breath	det
4	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 breath	amod
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breath	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 breath	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ointment	det
13	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ointment	amod
14	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 have	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prevent	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 prevent	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 prevent	aux
19	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 prevent	obj
21	from	from	SCONJ	_	23 burned	mark
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 burned	aux:pass
23	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 prevent	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 burned	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cure	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cure	cc
27	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 have	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 cure	obj
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 chance	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 chance	nsubj
31	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cure	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	36 scorched	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 scorched	aux:pass
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 little	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 scorched	obl:unmarked
36	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 cure	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a charmed ointment	here	as the fiery breath of this animals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ointment=Patient
2	charm	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	prevent	future		you			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme
4	burn up	gerund · passive					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»
5	cure	infinitive	I not said here	you			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source
6	chance a condition, not said to happen		you				tree rules
7	scorch	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here	a little			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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