The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 83
If you keep among the rocks you will never be observed.
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, not observe · To what, where: rocks, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 keep | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 rocks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rocks | det |
| 6 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 observed | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 observed | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 observed | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 observed | aux:pass |
| 11 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | you | the rocks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent among rock=Location | ||||
| 2 | not observe | future · passive | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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