The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 12

‘And even if you hear cries and sounds, however alarming, you must on no account enter,’ said the jogi, walking over to a closet where lay the silken cord that was to strangle the princess.

Who acts: you, silken cord · What happens: hear, say, walk over, lay, be · To what, where: cries, jogi, silken cord · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, silken cord), 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	_	6 hear	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 hear	cc
3	even	even	ADV	_	6 hear	advmod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hear	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
7	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sounds	cc
9	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cries	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 alarming	punct
11	however	however	ADV	_	12 alarming	advmod
12	alarming	alarming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hear	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 must	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 must	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 alarming	aux
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 enter	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 enter	det
18	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 enter	compound
19	enter	enter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 must	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 jogi	det
24	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 walking	punct
26	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 said	advcl
27	over	over	ADV	_	26 walking	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 closet	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 closet	det
30	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 walking	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 lay	advmod
32	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 closet	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cord	det
34	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cord	amod
35	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 strangle	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 strangle	cop
38	to	to	PART	_	39 strangle	mark
39	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cord	acl:relcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 princess	det
41	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 strangle	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear a condition, not said to happen	present	you	cries and sounds		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past		the jogi		tree rules
3	walk over	gerund			to a closet; over property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lay	present		the silken cord		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Result
5	is	past	the silken cord	the silken cord not said here	strangle property	tree rules

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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