The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 85
Take heed, therefore, my son, not to suffer your sheep to go where they will, but drive them to any spot that you think best.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, not suffer, go, drive, think · To what, where: heed, sheep, spot
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffer | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 suffer | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 suffer | mark |
| 11 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 suffer | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 suffer | advcl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 will | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 will | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drive | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 drive | cc |
| 21 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drive | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 spot | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 spot | det |
| 25 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drive | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 think | obj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 think | nsubj |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 spot | acl:relcl |
| 29 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 28 think | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | heed | my son vocative; therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | |||
| 2 | not suffer | to-infinitive | you not said here | your sheep | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drive | infinitive | you not said here | sheep | any spot | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to spot=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | you | any spot | well property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=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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