The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 100

Do not go; choose some other task!

Who acts: you · What happens: not go, choose · To what, where: other task

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 choose	punct
5	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 task	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 task	amod
8	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 choose	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	imperative · do-support	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	choose	infinitive	you not said here	some other task					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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