The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 117
Continue as good and kind as you always were; love your wife; and that’s all the advice I’ll give you.’
Who acts: you, that, I · What happens: continue, be, love, give · To what, where: wife, advice, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, I), 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 | Continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Continue | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kind | cc |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 good | conj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 were | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 were | nsubj |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 were | advmod |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 love | punct |
| 11 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Continue | parataxis |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 love | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 advice | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 advice | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 advice | nsubj |
| 17 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 advice | cop |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 advice | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 advice | det |
| 20 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Continue | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 22 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 advice | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Continue | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | imperative | you not said here | good property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | you | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | love | infinitive | your wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | all advice | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | future | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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