The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 109
Don’t open your mouth to answer.
Who acts: you · What happens: not open, answer · To what, where: mouth
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 open | advmod |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 answer | mark |
| 7 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 open | advcl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open | imperative · do-support | you not said here | your mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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