The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 49
Keep your bride’s crowns safe, and whenever you want my help, open this snuff-box.
Who acts: you, bride, my · What happens: keep, want, open, crown, help · To what, where: crowns, help, snuff box
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, bride, my), 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 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bride | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crowns | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 bride | case |
| 5 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 open | cc |
| 9 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 want | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 open | advcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 help | nmod:poss |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 want | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 box | det |
| 17 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 box | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 snuff | punct |
| 19 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 open | obj |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | your bride's crowns | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | present | you | my help | whenever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | |||
| 3 | open | infinitive | you not said here | this snuff box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crown | your bride | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | help | my | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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