The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 9
“Keep your pot of pinks and your ring, but let my things alone.
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, let · To what, where: pot, things
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), 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 | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pot | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pinks | case |
| 6 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pot | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ring | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ring | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pinks | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Keep | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 things | nmod:poss |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 let | obj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 let | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your pot of pinks and your ring | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | my things | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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 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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