The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 11

Lie down here, and I will throw these sacks over you; and keep still for your life, whatever happens.'

Who acts: you, I, whatever · What happens: lie down, throw, keep, happen · To what, where: sacks

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, whatever), 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	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Lie	advmod
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Lie	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 throw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 throw	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 throw	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 throw	aux
8	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lie	conj
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 sacks	det
10	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 throw	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 throw	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 keep	cc
15	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lie	parataxis
16	still	still	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 life	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 life	nmod:poss
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keep	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 happens	punct
21	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 happens	nsubj
22	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 life	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lie	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	imperative	you not said here		here		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw	future	I	this sacks			over you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme over you=Destination
3	keep	infinitive				still	for your life	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	happen	present	whatever					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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