The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 120

'Now go and tell the daughter of the king of Grianaig; but take heed lest you listen to her words, and promise to go no further, for she will seek to help you.

Who acts: you, mother · What happens: go, tell, take, listen, promise, seek · To what, where: daughter, heed, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother), 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	_	3 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Grianaig	case
12	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 king	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
16	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
17	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	19 listen	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 listen	nsubj
19	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 take	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 words	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 words	nmod:poss
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 listen	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 promise	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 promise	cc
25	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 take	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 promise	xcomp
28	no	no	ADV	_	29 further	advmod
29	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 go	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seek	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 seek	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 seek	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 seek	aux
34	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 promise	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 help	mark
36	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 seek	xcomp
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 help	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		the daughter of the king of Grianaig			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient
3	take	infinitive		heed				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
4	listen	present	you				to mother's words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	infinitive						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seek	future	mother					tree rules
8	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
9	word		mother					nom word «communication transitive»: 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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