The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 55
Well, be careful on no account to lift the lid.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, lift · To what, where: account, lid
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 careful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 careful | cop |
| 4 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 account | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 account | det |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 careful | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lift | mark |
| 9 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 careful | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lid | det |
| 11 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lift | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | no account | careful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lift | to-infinitive | you not said here | the lid | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=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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