The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 4

‘Yes, thus it must be; go and bid farewell to my father and mother, but if they offer you a present, see that you take nothing but my father’s ring and my mother’s casket.’

Who acts: heart, father, you · What happens: be, bid, offer, see, take · To what, where: farewell, present, you, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, father, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 go	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	cop
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bid	cc
11	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
12	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bid	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 father	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bid	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mother	cc
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 offer	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 offer	nsubj
22	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 see	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 offer	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 present	det
25	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 offer	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 offer	punct
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 take	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 take	nsubj
30	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 see	ccomp
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 take	obj
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 ring	cc
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ring	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 father	case
36	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nothing	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 casket	cc
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mother	nmod:poss
39	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 casket	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 mother	case
41	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	must	heart			go, thus property	tree rules
2	bid	infinitive	heart not said here	farewell		to my father and mother	tree rules
3	offer a condition, not said to happen	present	father	a present	you		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal present=Theme
4	see	infinitive	heart not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	take	present	you	nothing			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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