The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 46

But, above all, remember this: should my little dog come to you and lay his paws on you, with tears running down his face, then hurry home, for my life will be in danger.

Who acts: all, little dog, tears, life · What happens: remember, come, lay, run down, hurry, be · To what, where: this, you, paws, face

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, little dog, tears, life), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 remember	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
3	above	above	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 remember	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 remember	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dog	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 remember	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 come	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
17	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 paws	nmod:poss
19	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lay	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 lay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tears	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 tears	case
24	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lay	obl
25	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 tears	acl
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 running	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 running	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hurry	punct
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 hurry	advmod
31	hurry	hurry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 come	parataxis
32	home	home	ADV	_	31 hurry	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 danger	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	40 danger	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 life	nmod:poss
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 danger	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 danger	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 danger	cop
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 danger	case
40	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hurry	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	infinitive	all	this				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent this=Theme
2	come	should	my little dog		you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
3	lay	infinitive	my little dog not said here	dog's paws			on you; with tears	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on you=Destination
4	run down	gerund	tears not said here	dog's face				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Trajectory
5	hurry	infinitive				then	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	future	my life				for danger	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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