The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 6
During my absence take care of yourselves and be good girls; behave well and look after everything in the house.
Who acts: you, my, yourselves · What happens: take, be, behave, look, absent, care · To what, where: care, good girls
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my, yourselves), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 absence | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 absence | nmod:poss |
| 3 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 yourselves | case |
| 7 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 care | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 girls | cc |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 girls | cop |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girls | amod |
| 11 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 behave | punct |
| 13 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 behave | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 look | cc |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 everything | case |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 look | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | care of yourselves | during my absence | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | you not said here | good girls | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | behave | infinitive | you not said here | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | you not said here | after everything | in the house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=Theme | |||
| 5 | absent | my | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | care | yourselves | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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