Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 17
But don't open the box until you reach home."
Who acts: you · What happens: not open, reach · To what, where: box
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. 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 | _ | 4 open | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 open | advmod |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obj |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 reach | nsubj |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | advcl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 reach | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | present | you | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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