Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 84

"Don't spoil my girls," said the mother; "and don't talk to them, pray, unless you have serious intentions."

Who acts: you, mother · What happens: not spoil, say, not talk, pray, have · To what, where: girls, serious intentions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother), 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 spoil	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 spoil	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 spoil	advmod
4	spoil	spoil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 girls	nmod:poss
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoil	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoil	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 spoil	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoil	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 spoil	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 spoil	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 talk	cc
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 talk	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 talk	advmod
17	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 spoil	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talk	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pray	punct
21	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 spoil	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
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	4 spoil	parataxis
26	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 intentions	amod
27	intentions	intention	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoil	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 spoil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not spoil in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	my girls		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not talk in a quote	infinitive · do-support	you not said here		girls = girl	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
4	pray in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	serious intentions		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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