The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 121

'You had better shut your eyes or you may get giddy,' said the bird; and the cat, you had never before been off the ground except to climb a tree, did as she was bid.

Who acts: You · What happens: have, shut, get, say, be, climb · To what, where: eyes, bird, tree, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	xcomp
5	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shut	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
12	giddy	giddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 bid	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 bid	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bid	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ground	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 ground	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ground	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 before	advmod
26	before	before	ADV	_	30 ground	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 ground	cop
28	off	off	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cat	appos
31	except	except	ADP	_	33 climb	mark
32	to	to	PART	_	33 climb	mark
33	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ground	acl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tree	det
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 climb	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bid	punct
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bid	aux
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 bid	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 bid	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bid	aux:pass
41	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	You		good property	tree rules
2	shut	infinitive	You not said here	your eyes		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	get	may	you		giddy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past		the bird		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
5	is	past · perfect	you		off the ground; before property	tree rules
6	climb	to-infinitive		a tree		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
7	bid	past · passive · do-support		the cat		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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