The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 99

Keep your hands free lest you knock your nose against a stone, for the way is steep and the stones sharp.

Who acts: you, way, stones · What happens: keep, knock, be · To what, where: hands, nose, stone

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, way, stones), 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	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obj
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
5	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	7 knock	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 knock	nsubj
7	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nose	nmod:poss
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knock	obj
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knock	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 steep	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 steep	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 steep	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 steep	cop
18	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sharp	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stones	det
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sharp	nsubj
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 steep	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	your hands		free property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	knock	present	you	your nose	a stone		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nose=Theme against stone=Destination
3	is	present	the way			steep property	tree rules
4	be		the stones				tree rules

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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