The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 23

“If you will just do what I ask you, and when the time comes, run and kiss my forehead, you have nothing to fear.”

Who acts: you, shepherd, time · What happens: do, ask, come, run, kiss, have · To what, where: you, forehead, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shepherd, time), 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	_	18 run	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 run	advcl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 ask	nsubj
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 ask	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 run	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 run	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 comes	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	nsubj
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 run	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
18	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kiss	cc
20	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 run	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 forehead	nmod:poss
22	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kiss	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 run	advcl
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fear	mark
28	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 nothing	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 run	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	shepherd		you	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	come in a quote	present	the time			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kiss in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	my forehead		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent
6	have in a quote	present	you	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
7	fear in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	nothing not said here		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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