More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 94
You must keep the house clean and tidy, sweep the floor and the fireplace; but there is one thing you must never do.
Who acts: You, one thing · What happens: keep, sweep, be, not do · To what, where: house, floor, one thing
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, one thing), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tidy | cc |
| 8 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clean | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sweep | punct |
| 10 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 floor | det |
| 12 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sweep | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fireplace | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fireplace | det |
| 15 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floor | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 is | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | conj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 thing | nummod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 do | advmod |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thing | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | must | You | the house | clean property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | sweep | infinitive | You not said here | the floor and the fireplace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | be | present | one thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not do | must | you | one thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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