The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 55
But see that you do not open it till you place it where you wish it to stay.'
Who acts: you, payment · What happens: see, not open, wish, stay · To what, where: payment, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, payment), 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 | _ | 2 see | cc |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 open | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 open | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 open | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 open | advmod |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 open | obj |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 place | nsubj |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 open | obl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 wish | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stay | mark |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wish | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not open | present · do-support | you | payment | till place | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | present | payment | place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | payment not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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