The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 5

'You must go up and bow low before her,' whispered the mother to her children, nodding her head in the direction of the old lady, 'and keep your legs well apart, as you see me do.

Who acts: You, me · What happens: go up, bow, whisper, nod, keep, see · To what, where: mother, children, head, legs, me

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, me), 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 go	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 go	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bow	cc
7	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
8	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 bow	advmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bow	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whispered	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 whispered	punct
13	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 whispered	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 children	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 children	nmod:poss
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 whispered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nodding	punct
20	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 whispered	advcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nodding	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 direction	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 direction	det
25	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nodding	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 lady	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lady	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lady	amod
29	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 direction	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nodding	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 nodding	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 keep	cc
33	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 legs	nmod:poss
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 keep	obj
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 apart	advmod
37	apart	apart	ADV	_	33 keep	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 see	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 see	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 see	nsubj
41	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	advcl
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 see	obj
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 see	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	must	You					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	bow	present	You not said here			before duck	low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
3	whisper speech: assert	past		the mother	duck's children			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Topic to child=Recipient
4	nod	gerund		duck's head			in the direction of the old lady	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in direction=Theme
5	keep	infinitive	You not said here	your legs			apart property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
6	see	present	you	me				tree rules
7	do	infinitive	me not said here					vn act-114-1 «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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