The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 17
Be very sure that I will take care of you, and water you well, and never allow any cruel hand to tear you from your stems.”
Who acts: you, I, cruel hand, your · What happens: be, take, not allow, tear, stem · To what, where: care, cruel hand, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, cruel hand, your), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 sure | advmod |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 water | cc |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 well | nsubj |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 water | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 allow | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 allow | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 allow | advmod |
| 19 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | conj |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 hand | det |
| 21 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hand | amod |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 allow | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 tear | mark |
| 24 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 allow | xcomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 tear | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 stems | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 stems | nmod:poss |
| 28 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tear | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | future | I | care | of you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of you=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | not allow | infinitive | you not said here | any cruel hand | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer hand=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | tear not said to happen | to-infinitive | any cruel hand not said here | you | from your stems | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient from stem=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | stem | your | nom stem «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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