The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 79

Be good to your mother, as you have been to me.

Who acts: you · What happens: be

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), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 good	cop
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 me	csubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 mother	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 good	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 me	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 me	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 me	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 me	cop
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						to your mother; good property	tree rules
2	is	present · perfect	you					to me	tree rules

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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