The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 14

Open them all; go into all and every one of them, except that little closet, which I forbid you, and forbid it in such a manner that, if you happen to open it, there’s nothing but what you may expect from my just anger and resentment.”

Who acts: you, I, manner, my · What happens: open, go, forbid, happen, expect, anger · To what, where: keys, all, little closet, closet, manner, anger

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, manner, my), 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	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Open	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 them	nmod:unmarked
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Open	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 one	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Open	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 closet	punct
14	except	except	ADP	_	17 closet	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 closet	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 closet	amod
17	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Open	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forbid	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 forbid	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 forbid	nsubj
21	forbid	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 closet	acl:relcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 forbid	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forbid	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 forbid	cc
25	forbid	forbid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Open	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forbid	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 manner	case
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 manner	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 manner	det
30	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 forbid	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 happen	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 happen	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 happen	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 happen	nsubj
35	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 manner	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 open	mark
37	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 happen	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 open	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ’s	punct
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 ’s	expl
41	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Open	parataxis
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 ’s	obj
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 expect	cc
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 expect	obj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 expect	nsubj
46	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 expect	aux
47	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 ’s	conj
48	from	from	ADP	_	51 anger	case
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 anger	nmod:poss
50	just	just	ADV	_	51 anger	advmod
51	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 expect	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 resentment	cc
53	resentment	resentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 anger	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Open	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	keys = key		except that little closet	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	go	infinitive	you not said here		all		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into all=Initial_Location
3	forbid	present	I	that little closet			tree rules
4	forbid	infinitive	you not said here	closet	such manner		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme
5	happen a condition, not said to happen	present	such manner				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	open	to-infinitive	such manner not said here	closet			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
7	expect	may	you		my anger and resentment		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
8	anger		my				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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