The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 35
“Here, you had better keep them!
Who acts: you · What happens: have, keep · To what, where: eyes
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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 had | xcomp |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 better | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | you | here | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | keep in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | eyes = eye | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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