The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 26
“The hands you see floating above Will swiftly your bidding obey; If your heart dreads not conquering Love, In this place you may fearlessly stay.”
Who acts: hands, bidding, heart, you, your · What happens: see, float, swiftly, obey, dread, not conquer · To what, where: place, Love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, bidding, heart, 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hands | det |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 see | xcomp |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 swiftly | mark |
| 8 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 swiftly | aux |
| 9 | swiftly | swiftly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 floating | xcomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 obey | nsubj |
| 12 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 swiftly | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreads | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 dreads | mark |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dreads | nsubj |
| 17 | dreads | dread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 conquering | advmod |
| 19 | conquering | conquer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 dreads | advcl |
| 20 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 conquering | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
| 22 | In | in | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dreads | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 stay | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 stay | aux |
| 27 | fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 28 stay | advmod |
| 28 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 place | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | the hands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | float in a quote | gerund | the hands not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swiftly in a quote | future | the hands not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | obey in a quote | present | your bidding | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | dread a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | your heart | this place | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | not conquer in a quote | gerund | your heart not said here | Love | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | ||||
| 7 | stay in a quote | may | you | this place not said here | fearlessly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme place=Location | |||
| 8 | bid in a quote | your | nom bidding «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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