The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 49
Do not let the cow see you, or she will assuredly kill you.’
Who acts: you, cow · What happens: not let, see, kill · To what, where: cow, you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cow), 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 let | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 kill | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | aux |
| 12 | assuredly | assuredly | ADV | _ | 13 kill | advmod |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the cow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | the cow not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill | future | cow | you | assuredly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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