The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 50

But see that the back of the sword is ever against your nose, else when your stepmother beholds you, she will change you into a dry faggot.

Who acts: you, back, stepmother · What happens: see, be, behold, change · To what, where: you, dry faggot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, back, stepmother), 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	_	13 nose	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nose	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sword	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sword	det
8	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nose	cop
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 nose	advmod
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 nose	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nose	nmod:poss
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beholds	punct
15	else	else	ADV	_	19 beholds	advmod
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 beholds	mark
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 stepmother	nmod:poss
18	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beholds	nsubj
19	beholds	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 beholds	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 change	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 change	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 change	aux
24	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 change	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 faggot	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 faggot	det
28	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 faggot	amod
29	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 change	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the back of the sword		ever	against your nose	tree rules
3	behold	present	your stepmother	you		else property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	change	future	stepmother	you		into a dry faggot result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient into faggot=Result

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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