The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 77

‘Don’t forest to whistle when you want to come down; but if you are enjoying yourself as I did, shake your legs.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, whistle, want, come down, enjoy, shake · To what, where: forest, yourself, legs

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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 shake	advcl
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 forest	advmod
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Do	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 whistle	mark
6	whistle	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Do	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 want	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 whistle	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 shake	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 shake	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 enjoying	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 enjoying	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 enjoying	aux
18	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 shake	advcl
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 enjoying	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 did	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 enjoying	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 enjoying	punct
24	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 legs	nmod:poss
26	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shake	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 shake	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	infinitive	you not said here	forest		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	whistle	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	come down not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	enjoy a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	you	yourself		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus
6	do	past	I			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	shake	imperative	you not said here	your legs		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leg=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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