The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 45

Get in, and wrap this blanket round your head,' said they; 'and, whatever happens, don't uncover it till you get to the bottom.'

Who acts: you, salmon, whatever · What happens: get in, wrap, say, happen, not uncover, get · To what, where: blanket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, salmon, 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	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wrap	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wrap	cc
5	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	parataxis
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 blanket	det
7	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrap	obj
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrap	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	parataxis
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 uncover	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 happens	punct
19	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 happens	nsubj
20	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 uncover	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 happens	punct
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 uncover	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 uncover	advmod
24	uncover	uncover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 uncover	obj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 get	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 get	nsubj
28	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 uncover	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 bottom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bottom	det
31	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in	imperative	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	wrap	infinitive		this blanket	round your head	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	salmon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	happen	present	whatever			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not uncover	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	blanket		tree rules
6	get	present	you		to the bottom result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bottom=Result

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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