The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 99

'Rest your cheek on your hand, as if you were in pain, when the prince returns,' said the mother; 'and be careful not to speak, whatever you do.

Who acts: you, prince · What happens: rest, be, return, say, not speak, do · To what, where: cheek, hand, pain, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince), 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	_	2 Rest	punct
2	Rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cheek	nmod:poss
4	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rest	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rest	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pain	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 pain	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 pain	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 pain	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pain	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 pain	case
14	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rest	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 returns	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 returns	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prince	det
18	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 returns	nsubj
19	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 returns	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 returns	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pain	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mother	det
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Rest	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Rest	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 careful	cc
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 careful	cop
29	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Rest	conj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 speak	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 speak	mark
32	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 careful	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whatever	punct
34	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 speak	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 do	nsubj
36	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 whatever	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	imperative	you not said here	your cheek	your hand		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme on hand=Location
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	you		pain		tree rules
3	return	present	the prince				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past		the mother			tree rules
5	is	infinitive	you not said here			careful property	tree rules
6	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	do	present	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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