The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 101
But see that they touch her not, and give her food yourself, and yourself lead her into the stable, and shut the door.
Who acts: you, boys, yourself · What happens: see, not touch, give, lea, shut · To what, where: stable, food, yourself, door
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boys, yourself), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 see | cc |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 touch | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | nsubj |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | obj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 touch | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 food | nmod:poss |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 give | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lead | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lead | cc |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 lead | nsubj |
| 17 | lead | lea | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lead | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 stable | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stable | det |
| 21 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lead | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shut | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shut | cc |
| 24 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shut | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not touch | present | boys = boy | stable | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | you not said here | stable's food | yourself | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient food=Theme | |||
| 4 | lea | past | yourself | stable | the stable | tree rules | |||
| 5 | shut | infinitive | you not said here | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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