The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 57
But take heed to go down first yourself, and let them follow after you.
Who acts: you, berries · What happens: take, go down, let, follow · To what, where: heed, yourself, berries
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, berries), 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 take | cc |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 take | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 go | advmod |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | to-infinitive | you not said here | yourself | down, first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | berries = berry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow | infinitive | berries = berry not said here | after you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after you=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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