The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 24
He shall not presume to come into our metropolis without our express order, at which time the inhabitants shall have two hours’ warning to keep within doors.
Who acts: Mountain, inhabitants, our · What happens: not presume, come, have, keep, order · To what, where: metropolis
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mountain, inhabitants, our), 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 | 4 presume | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 presume | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 presume | advmod |
| 4 | presume | presume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 presume | xcomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 metropolis | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 metropolis | nmod:poss |
| 9 | metropolis | metropolis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 order | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 order | nmod:poss |
| 12 | express | express | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 order | amod |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 inhabitants | det |
| 19 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hours | nummod |
| 23 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 25 warning | punct |
| 25 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hours | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 keep | mark |
| 27 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 warning | acl |
| 28 | within | within | ADP | _ | 29 doors | case |
| 29 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 keep | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not presume | shall | Mountain | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Mountain not said here | our metropolis | without our express order | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into metropolis=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | have | shall | the inhabitants | hour; time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | the inhabitants not said here | within doors | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | order | our | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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