The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 32

“Now you know the language of beasts, go in peace; but, if you value your life, beware lest you tell any one of it, else you will immediately die.”

Who acts: you · What happens: know, go, value, beware, tell, die · To what, where: language, peace, life, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. 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	_	4 know	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 know	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 language	det
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 beasts	case
8	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 language	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 peace	case
12	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 beware	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 beware	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 but	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 value	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 value	nsubj
18	value	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 beware	advcl
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 value	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 value	punct
22	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj
23	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	25 tell	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 beware	advcl
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 die	punct
31	else	else	ADV	_	35 die	advmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 die	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 die	aux
34	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	35 die	advmod
35	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tell	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	you	the language of beasts		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
2	go in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		peace			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location
3	value a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	your life				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
4	beware in a quote	infinitive	you not said here					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you	any one of life				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
6	die in a quote	future	you				else, immediately property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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