The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 37
Keep these crowns under your cloak, and if you are obliged to stay last, don’t get into the basket, but put a big stone, or any heavy thing inside, and see what will happen.’
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, oblige, stay, not get, put, see · To what, where: crowns, cloak, you, basket, big stone · 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 crowns | det |
| 3 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 cloak | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stay | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 obliged | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 obliged | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 obliged | aux:pass |
| 12 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stay | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stay | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 get | advmod |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 stay | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 basket | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 basket | det |
| 22 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 put | cc |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stone | det |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stone | amod |
| 28 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thing | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 thing | cc |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 thing | det |
| 32 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 thing | amod |
| 33 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | parataxis |
| 34 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 33 thing | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 see | cc |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 38 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 happen | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 happen | aux |
| 40 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 see | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | this crowns | your cloak | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crown=Theme under cloak=Location | |||
| 2 | oblige a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | you not said here | last property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not get | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | the basket | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into basket=Destination | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | you not said here | a big stone | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stone=Goal | ||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | happen | future | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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