The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 110
Do not neglect each time to heap back the loose earth which concealed the entrance of the king’s treasure chamber.’
Who acts: you, loose earth · What happens: not neglect, heap back, conceal · To what, where: loose earth, entrance
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, loose earth), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 neglect | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 neglect | advmod |
| 3 | neglect | neglect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 neglect | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 heap | mark |
| 7 | heap | heap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 heap | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 10 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 earth | amod |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heap | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 concealed | nsubj |
| 13 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 earth | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 entrance | det |
| 15 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 concealed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 chamber | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chamber | compound |
| 21 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entrance | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 neglect | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 neglect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not neglect | imperative · do-support | you not said here | time | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | heap back | to-infinitive | you not said here | the loose earth | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conceal | past | the loose earth | the entrance of the king's treasure chamber | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Patient |
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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