The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 55
Only don't forget to loosen the bridle when you sell it.'
Who acts: you · What happens: not forget, loosen, sell · To what, where: bridle
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 forget | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 forget | advmod |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 loosen | mark |
| 6 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forget | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bridle | det |
| 8 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loosen | obj |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 sell | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sell | nsubj |
| 11 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 loosen | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | imperative · do-support | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | loosen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the bridle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bridle=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sell | present | you | bridle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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