The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 4
“‘Be careful of my gifts, good man; see that you do not lose the ring or forget to water the pinks.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: be, see, not lose, forget, gift · To what, where: ring, water
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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 careful | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 careful | punct |
| 3 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 careful | cop |
| 4 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gifts | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 careful | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gifts | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 careful | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 lose | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 lose | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lose | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 lose | advmod |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ring | det |
| 19 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lose | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 forget | cc |
| 21 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lose | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 water | mark |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forget | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pinks | det |
| 25 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 forget | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | of my gifts and good man; careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | not lose in a quote | present · do-support | you | the ring | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | forget in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | water | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | gift in a quote | my | nom gift «possession 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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