The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 59
Go, my son, and do not forget any of my instructions.”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: go, not forget, instruct · To what, where: any
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forget | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forget | cc |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 forget | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 forget | advmod |
| 9 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 forget | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instructions | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 13 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 any | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | my son vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not forget | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | any | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | instruct | my | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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