The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 19
But I forbid you on pain of death to look at what it contains.’
Who acts: I, death · What happens: forbid, look, contain, pain · To what, where: you, pain, death
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, death), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 forbid | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 forbid | nsubj |
| 3 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 forbid | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 pain | case |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forbid | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pain | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forbid | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 look | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 contains | nsubj |
| 14 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | present | I | you | pain of death | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | contain | present | death | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | pain | death | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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