The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 78
But when you seek to steal it, take heed that its sheath touches nothing inside the house, or ill will befall you.'
Who acts: you, sheath · What happens: seek, steal, take, touch, befall · To what, where: Sword, heed, nothing, house, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sheath), 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 | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 seek | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 seek | nsubj |
| 4 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 steal | mark |
| 6 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seek | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 steal | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seek | punct |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 touches | mark |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touches | nsubj |
| 14 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | advcl |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 touches | obj |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touches | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 befall | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 befall | cc |
| 21 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 befall | advcl |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 befall | aux |
| 23 | befall | befall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 befall | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | steal not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | Sword | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | imperative | you not said here | heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | touch | present | Sword's sheath | nothing | the house | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | befall | future | you not said here | you | tree rules |
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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