The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 21
But beware of the words of the knight's daughter, for she is cunning, and will try to keep you at her side.
Who acts: you, head · What happens: beware, be, try, keep, word · To what, where: you, side, daughter
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, head), 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 beware | cc |
| 2 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beware | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knight | det |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 knight | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cunning | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 cunning | case |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cunning | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cunning | cop |
| 15 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beware | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 try | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 try | cc |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 try | aux |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 beware | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 keep | mark |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 try | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 side | nmod:poss |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | of the words of the knight's daughter | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | head | for cunning | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | future | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | head's side | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme at side=Location | |||
| 5 | word | the knight's daughter | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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