The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 45

Look at him with that when he is asleep, but take care not to let any tallow drop upon him.”

Who acts: you, man · What happens: look, be, take, not let · To what, where: care, tallow drop

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 (you, man), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Look	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Look	obl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asleep	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Look	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 take	cc
12	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 let	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 take	conj
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 drop	det
18	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drop	compound
19	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		at man; with that	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	is	present	man		asleep property	tree rules
3	take	infinitive		care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	not let	to-infinitive		any tallow drop	upon man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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