The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 5
Do not forget a single word of my greeting, and bring me back a message from my beloved.”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: not forget, bring back, word, greet · To what, where: single word, message, me, beloved, greeting
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 forget | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 forget | advmod |
| 3 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forget | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 greeting | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 9 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 word | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 forget | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 message | det |
| 16 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 beloved | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 19 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bring | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forget | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | imperative · do-support | you not said here | a single word of my greeting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring back | infinitive | you not said here | a message | me | my beloved | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination message=Theme | ||
| 3 | word | my greeting | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | greet | my | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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