The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 44
Lie down on the floor, and pretend to be dead, and be sure not to speak, whatever happens.
Who acts: you, whatever · What happens: lie down, pretend, be, not speak, happen · To what, where: floor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whatever), 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 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Lie | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lie | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretend | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pretend | cc |
| 8 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 dead | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dead | cop |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pretend | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sure | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Lie | parataxis |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 speak | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 speak | mark |
| 18 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 happens | punct |
| 20 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 happens | nsubj |
| 21 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | imperative | you not said here | the floor | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | |||
| 2 | pretend | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not speak speech: other | to-infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | happen | present | whatever | 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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