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The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 98

“The moment the dragon comes near you, you must tear off the veil,” cried he; “and be sure you hide behind the mirror.

Who acts: dragon, moment, you · What happens: come, tear off, cry, be, hide · To what, where: moment, veil, mirror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, moment, 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

punctdetnsubjdetnsubjacl:relclcaseoblpunctnsubjauxccompcompound:prtdetobjpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctcccopconjnsubjccompcasedetoblpunctroot“PUNCTTheDETmomentNOUNtheDETdragonNOUNcomesVERBnearADPyouPRON,PUNCTyouPRONmustAUXtearVERBoffADPtheDETveilNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTcriedVERBhePRON;PUNCT“PUNCTandCCONJbeAUXsureADJyouPRONhideVERBbehindADPtheDETmirrorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_12 tearpunct
2ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 momentdet
3momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing12 tearnsubj
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 dragondet
5dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing6 comesnsubj
6comescomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 momentacl:relcl
7nearnearADP_8 youcase
8youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs6 comesobl
9,,PUNCT_3 momentpunct
10youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs12 tearnsubj
11mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin12 tearaux
12teartearVERBVerbForm=Inf18 criedccomp
13offoffADP_12 tearcompound:prt
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 veildet
15veilveilNOUNNumber=Sing12 tearobj
16,,PUNCT_12 tearpunct
17”"PUNCT_12 tearpunct
18criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 criednsubj
20;;PUNCT_24 surepunct
21“"PUNCT_24 surepunct
22andandCCONJ_24 surecc
23bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf24 surecop
24suresureADJDegree=Pos18 criedconj
25youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs26 hidensubj
26hidehideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 sureccomp
27behindbehindADP_29 mirrorcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 mirrordet
29mirrormirrorNOUNNumber=Sing26 hideobl
30..PUNCT_18 criedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1come in a quotepresentthe dragonthe moment not said herenear youvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme
2tear off in a quotemustthe momentthe veilvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location veil=Theme
3cry speech: expresspastdragonvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4is in a quoteinfinitivedragon not said heresure propertytree rules
5hide in a quotepresentyouthe mirrorvn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind mirror=Location

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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