The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 101

“O new fruit of life! you must just do what I tell you, and you must use your eyes and your brains, for if you don’t you will find yourself at the place of the negroes, who are a bloodthirsty set; and God forbid they should lay hands on your precious person.”

Who acts: new fruit, stuff, you, negroes, God, fruits · What happens: do, tell, use, not find, be, forbid · To what, where: you, eyes, yourself, place, bloodthirsty set, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new fruit, stuff, you, negroes), 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 fruit	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	4 fruit	discourse
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fruit	amod
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fruit	nmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fruit	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 use	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 use	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 use	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 use	aux
20	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	parataxis
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 use	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 brains	cc
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 brains	nmod:poss
25	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eyes	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 find	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 find	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 find	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 find	nsubj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 find	aux
31	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 find	advmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 find	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 find	aux
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 use	conj
35	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 find	obj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 place	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 place	det
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 negroes	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 negroes	det
41	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 place	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 set	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 set	nsubj
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 set	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 set	det
46	bloodthirsty	bloodthirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 set	amod
47	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 negroes	conj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 forbid	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 God	cc
50	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 forbid	nsubj
51	forbid	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 do	advcl
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 lay	nsubj
53	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 lay	aux
54	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 forbid	ccomp
55	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 lay	obj
56	on	on	ADP	_	59 person	case
57	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 person	nmod:poss
58	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 person	amod
59	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 lay	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	must	new fruit of life					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	stuff of my life = stuff		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	use in a quote	must	you	your eyes and your brains				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	not find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you	yourself		the place of the negroes and a bloodthirsty set		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme at place=Asset
5	is a in a quote	present	the negroes and a bloodthirsty set	a bloodthirsty set				tree rules
6	forbid in a quote	present	God					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
7	lay in a quote	should	fruits = fruit	hands			on your precious person	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on person=Destination

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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