The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 73
‘But be sure you tie the knot securely, for I don’t want to fall down and break my neck.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, tie, not want, fall down, break · To what, where: knot, neck
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 sure | cc |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tie | nsubj |
| 6 | tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knot | det |
| 8 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tie | obj |
| 9 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 6 tie | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 want | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 want | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 want | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 want | advmod |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tie | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fall | mark |
| 17 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 want | xcomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 fall | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 break | cc |
| 20 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fall | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 break | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tie | present | you | the knot | securely property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient | |||
| 3 | not want | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall down not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | break | infinitive | I not said here | my neck | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient |
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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