The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 14

Take this walnut, but do not open it until you are before him, then you will find in it the piece of stuff you asked me for.”

Who acts: you, piece · What happens: take, not open, be, find, ask · To what, where: walnut, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, piece), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 walnut	det
3	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 open	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 open	cc
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 open	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 open	advmod
8	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 open	obj
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 him	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 him	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 him	cop
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 open	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 find	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 piece	det
23	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 stuff	case
25	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 piece	nmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 asked	nsubj
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 find	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 asked	iobj
29	for	for	ADP	_	27 asked	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	this walnut				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walnut=Theme
2	not open	infinitive · do-support		walnut				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	is	present	you				before King	tree rules
4	find	future	you			walnut	then	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past	the piece of stuff		me			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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