The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 43

But the other fields are his mother's, so beware lest you touch them.'

Who acts: other fields, you · What happens: be, beware, touch · To what, where: fields

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other fields, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 beware	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fields	amod
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mother	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mother	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beware	dislocated
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beware	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 beware	advmod
11	beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	14 touch	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 touch	nsubj
14	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beware	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 touch	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 beware	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 beware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the other fields		's husband's mother	tree rules
2	beware	imperative	you not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	touch	present	you	fields = field		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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