The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 58

“Don’t spoil your appetites, children, with that stuff.

Who acts: you · What happens: not spoil · To what, where: appetites

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 spoil	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 spoil	aux
3	n’t	n't	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spoil	aux
4	spoil	spoil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 appetites	nmod:poss
6	appetites	appetite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoil	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 children	punct
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 appetites	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stuff	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 stuff	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 stuff	det
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoil	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spoil in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your appetites and children					tree rules

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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