The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 166
Make haste and begin to love him this instant, or you shall be tarred and feathered.’
Who acts: you · What happens: make, begin, love, tar · To what, where: haste, son, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 begin | cc |
| 4 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 love | mark |
| 6 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begin | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 love | obj |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 instant | det |
| 9 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 love | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tarred | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 tarred | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tarred | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tarred | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tarred | aux:pass |
| 15 | tarred | tar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 begin | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 feathered | cc |
| 17 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tarred | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 2 | begin | infinitive | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | you not said here | son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tar | shall · passive | you | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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