The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 32
But remember, ladies, you are to keep your crows safe, and be married in them, all the same day.
Who acts: you · What happens: remember, be, marry · To what, where: ladies · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 2 remember | cc |
| 2 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ladies | punct |
| 4 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 remember | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 remember | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 crows | nmod:poss |
| 11 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | obj |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 married | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 married | cc |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 remember | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 married | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 day | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 day | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 married | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | ladies | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent lady=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | keep, safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | infinitive · passive | day | in crows = crow | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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