The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 71
But take heed that neither man nor beast kiss thee, for then thou wilt cease to remember me at all.’
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: take, cease, remember · To what, where: heed, me, all
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 take | cc |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 thee | nsubj |
| 5 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thee | nsubj |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 kiss | cc |
| 8 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kiss | compound |
| 9 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 heed | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cease | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 cease | mark |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 cease | advmod |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 cease | nsubj |
| 15 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 16 cease | aux |
| 16 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 take | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 remember | mark |
| 18 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cease | xcomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 remember | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 remember | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cease | future | thou | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | remember | to-infinitive | thou not said here | me | all | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=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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