The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 106

Now trim your lamp that it may not fail you, for you will be nearly blinded by the flash and glitter of the gold and precious stones on the walls and pillars of the vault; but beware how you stretch out a hand towards the jewels!

Who acts: you, lamp, flash · What happens: trim, not fail, blind, beware, stretch out · To what, where: lamp, you, hand

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lamp, flash), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 trim	advmod
2	trim	trim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lamp	nmod:poss
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trim	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fail	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fail	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fail	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 fail	advmod
9	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trim	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 fail	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blinded	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 blinded	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 blinded	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 blinded	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 blinded	aux:pass
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	17 blinded	advmod
17	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fail	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 flash	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flash	det
20	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blinded	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 glitter	cc
22	glitter	glitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flash	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 gold	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gold	det
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 glitter	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stones	cc
27	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stones	amod
28	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flash	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 walls	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 walls	det
31	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stones	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pillars	cc
33	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 walls	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 vault	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 vault	det
36	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pillars	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 beware	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 beware	cc
39	beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 trim	conj
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 stretch	advmod
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 stretch	nsubj
42	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 beware	ccomp
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 stretch	compound:prt
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 hand	det
45	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stretch	obj
46	towards	towards	ADP	_	48 jewels	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 jewels	det
48	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 stretch	obl
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 trim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	trim	imperative	you not said here	your lamp	now		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient
2	not fail	may	lamp	you			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
3	blind	future · passive	the flash and glitter of the gold and precious stones on the walls and pillars of the vault	you		nearly property	tree rules
4	beware	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
5	stretch out	present	you	a hand		towards the jewels	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards jewel=Recipient

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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