The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 14
Take the advice of the horse, and see you obey it.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, see, obey · To what, where: advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 advice | det |
| 3 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advice | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 obey | nsubj |
| 11 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 obey | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the advice of the horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | obey | present | you | advice | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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