The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 28
“Your parents dwell here now,” said the White Bear; “but do not forget what I said to you, or you will do much harm both to yourself and me.”
Who acts: parents, White Bear, you · What happens: dwell, say, not forget, do, harm · To what, where: you, much, both, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, White Bear, 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 | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 parents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dwell | nsubj |
| 4 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dwell | advmod |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dwell | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bear | det |
| 11 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Bear | amod |
| 12 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 forget | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 forget | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 forget | cc |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 forget | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 forget | advmod |
| 18 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 said | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 forget | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 said | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 do | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forget | parataxis |
| 29 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 much | xcomp |
| 31 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 harm | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 yourself | case |
| 33 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 harm | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 me | cc |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 yourself | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell in a quote | present | Your parents | here | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the White Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not forget in a quote | infinitive · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the White Bear = bear | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to you=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | future | you | much | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | harm in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | both | yourself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus both=Experiencer |
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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