More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 122
There will come all manner of frogs and snakes, and some will try to get into your eyes and your mouth, but mind, don't stir the least bit or you will turn into one of those things yourself."
Who acts: some, you · What happens: come, try, get, not stir, turn · To what, where: manner, eyes, least bit, yourself
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 come | expl |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 manner | det |
| 5 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 frogs | case |
| 7 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 manner | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 snakes | cc |
| 9 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 frogs | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 try | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 try | cc |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 try | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 try | aux |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 try | xcomp |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mouth | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mind | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 mind | cc |
| 25 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | vocative |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stir | punct |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 stir | aux |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 stir | advmod |
| 29 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bit | det |
| 31 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 bit | amod |
| 32 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stir | obj |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 turn | cc |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 turn | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 turn | aux |
| 36 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 stir | conj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 one | case |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 turn | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 things | case |
| 40 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 things | det |
| 41 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 one | nmod |
| 42 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 turn | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | all manner of frogs and snakes | there | mind vocative | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location manner=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | future | some | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | some not said here | your eyes and your mouth | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not stir | infinitive · do-support | the least bit | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bit=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | turn | future | you | yourself | into one of that things | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory |
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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