The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 21

But lest she should make thee forget thy son, I charge thee that thou take not a wife until thou see a briar with two blossoms upon my grave.’

Who acts: wife, thee, I, thou · What happens: make, forget, charge, not take, see · To what, where: thee, son, wife, briar

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, thee, I, 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	_	5 make	cc
2	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	5 make	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 make	obj
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forget	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 charge	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 charge	nsubj
12	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	parataxis
13	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 charge	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 take	mark
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 take	nsubj
16	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 charge	advcl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 take	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wife	det
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 take	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 briar	det
24	briar	briar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 blossoms	case
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 blossoms	nummod
27	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obl
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 grave	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 grave	nmod:poss
30	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blossoms	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	should	wife	thee			tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	thee not said here	thy son			tree rules
3	charge	present	I		thee		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thou=Theme
4	not take	present	thou		a wife		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
5	see	present	thou	a briar		with two blossoms upon my grave	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer briar=Stimulus

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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