The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 54

To-day you shall stay at home and mind my old mother who is sick, perhaps you will be able to drive flies off her face, if you can't drive beasts away from sheep!'

Who acts: you, old mother · What happens: stay, mind, be, drive, not drive away · To what, where: home, old mother, flies, face, beasts

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stay	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stay	aux
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mind	cc
10	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stay	conj
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mother	amod
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mind	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sick	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sick	cop
16	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mother	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 able	punct
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	22 able	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 able	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 able	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	cop
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sick	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 drive	mark
24	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drive	obj
26	off	off	ADP	_	28 face	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drive	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 drive	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 drive	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 drive	nsubj
32	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 drive	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 drive	advmod
34	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stay	conj
35	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 drive	obj
36	away	away	ADV	_	34 drive	advmod
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 sheep	case
38	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 drive	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	shall	you		home	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
2	mind	infinitive	you not said here	my old mother				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
3	is	present	my old mother				sick property	tree rules
4	is	future	you				able, perhaps property	tree rules
5	drive	to-infinitive	you not said here	flies	mother's face			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fly=Theme off face=Trajectory
6	not drive away a condition, not said to happen	can	you	beasts			from sheep; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beast=Theme from sheep=Trajectory

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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