The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 94

When you find him begin to dig, but don’t speak a word to him.

Who acts: you · What happens: find, begin, dig, not speak · To what, where: story, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 find	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 begin	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dig	mark
7	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begin	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speak	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 speak	cc
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 speak	aux
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 speak	advmod
12	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 begin	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speak	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 speak	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	find	present	you	story		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	begin	imperative	you not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dig	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not speak speech: other	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	a word	story	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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