The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 23

'Sit down quietly at that end or we shall be upset,' said the mink; 'and if you care about sea-urchins' eggs, you will find plenty in that basket.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: sit down, be, say, care, find · To what, where: end, mink, plenty, basket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 Sit	compound:prt
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 Sit	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 upset	cc
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 upset	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 upset	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 upset	cop
12	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Sit	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mink	det
17	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 find	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 care	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 care	nsubj
23	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 find	advcl
24	about	about	ADP	_	29 eggs	case
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 urchins	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 sea	punct
27	urchins	urchin	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eggs	nmod:poss
28	'	's	PART	_	27 urchins	case
29	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 care	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 care	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 find	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 find	aux
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Sit	conj
34	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 find	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 basket	case
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 basket	det
37	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 find	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here			at that end	quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location
2	is	shall	we				upset property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	you not said here	the mink				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mink=Topic
4	care a condition, not said to happen	present	you				about sea urchins's eggs	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about egg=Stimulus
5	find	future	you	plenty	that basket			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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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