The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 87
But, remember, it is not necessary to let all the world into the secret.”
Who acts: you · What happens: remember, not be, let · To what, where: world, secret
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 remember | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 necessary | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 necessary | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 necessary | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 necessary | advmod |
| 8 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remember | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 let | mark |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 necessary | csubj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 world | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 secret | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 secret | det |
| 16 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | you not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | all world | the secret | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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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