More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 139
But mind not to stir to-night no matter how you get bitten and stung, or else you will work great mischief to yourself."
Who acts: you · What happens: not mind, stir, bite, sting, work · To what, where: matter, you, great mischief, 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 mind | cc |
| 2 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 mind | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stir | mark |
| 5 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mind | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stir | obl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stir | obj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 bitten | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bitten | aux:pass |
| 14 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stir | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stung | cc |
| 16 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 bitten | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 work | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 work | cc |
| 19 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 work | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 work | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 work | aux |
| 22 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mind | advcl |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mischief | amod |
| 24 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 work | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 yourself | case |
| 26 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 work | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mind | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stir | to-infinitive | you not said here | no matter | night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus matter=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | bite | present · passive | you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sting | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | work | future | you | great mischief | yourself | else property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent mischief=Material |
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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