The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 80

'But be careful,' he added, 'how you enter the stable, for the door swings without ceasing to and fro, and if it touches you, it will cause you to cry out.

Who acts: you, Ian, door · What happens: be, add, enter, swing, cease, fro · To what, where: stable, you

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, Ian, door), 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	_	4 careful	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 careful	cc
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 careful	cop
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 added	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 added	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 added	nsubj
8	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 careful	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enter	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 enter	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 enter	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 enter	nsubj
13	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 added	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stable	det
15	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 enter	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swings	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 swings	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swings	nsubj
20	swings	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 added	parataxis
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 ceasing	mark
22	ceasing	cease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 swings	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 ceasing	fixed
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fro	cc
25	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ceasing	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cause	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cause	cc
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 touches	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 touches	nsubj
30	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 cause	advcl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 touches	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 touches	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cause	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 cause	aux
35	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 swings	conj
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 cause	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 cry	mark
38	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cause	xcomp
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 cry	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		careful property	tree rules
2	add speech: assert	past	Ian			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	enter	present	you	the stable		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stable=Destination
4	swing	present	the door			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	cease	gerund	the door not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	fro	infinitive	the door not said here			tree rules
7	touch a condition, not said to happen	present	door	you		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme
8	cause	future	door	you		tree rules
9	cry out speech: express	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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