The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 5

He is still too young to decide everything for himself, and unless you promise me to instruct him in all he should know, and to be to him as a father, I shall not close my eyes in peace.”

Who acts: John, you, I · What happens: be, decide, promise, instruct, know, not close · To what, where: everything, me, John, all, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, you, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 young	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 decide	mark
7	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 young	advcl
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 decide	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 decide	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 promise	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 promise	cc
13	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	15 promise	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 promise	nsubj
15	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 young	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 promise	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 instruct	mark
18	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promise	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 instruct	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 instruct	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 all	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 close	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 close	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	30 him	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 him	cop
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 close	obl
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 father	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 father	det
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 close	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 father	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 close	nsubj
36	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 close	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 close	advmod
38	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 instruct	conj
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 eyes	nmod:poss
40	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 close	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 peace	case
42	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 close	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 young	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	John				still	young property	tree rules
2	decide	to-infinitive	John not said here	everything				for John	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
3	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	present	you		me				vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	instruct speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		John	all			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	know	should	John						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	to-infinitive						to John	tree rules
7	not close	shall	I	my eyes				as a father; in peace	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Patient in peace=Topic

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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