The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 75

'Conduct this pig of a child to the castle of Come-and-never-go, and take care that you warn my friend of his arrival.'

Who acts: you, castle, friend · What happens: conduct, come, not go, take, warn, arrive · To what, where: pig, castle, care, that, friend

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, castle, friend), 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	_	2 Conduct	punct
2	Conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 pig	det
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Conduct	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pig	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Conduct	obl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 Come	mark
12	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 castle	acl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 and	punct
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 go	advmod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 never	punct
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Come	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
21	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Conduct	parataxis
22	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 warn	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 warn	nsubj
25	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 take	conj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 friend	nmod:poss
27	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 warn	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 arrival	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 arrival	nmod:poss
30	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 friend	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Conduct	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Conduct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	conduct	imperative	you not said here	this pig of a child		the castle	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme to castle=Destination
2	come	infinitive	the castle not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not go	infinitive	the castle not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	infinitive		care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	warn speech: warn	present	you	that	my friend of friend's arrival		tree rules
6	arrive		friend				nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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