The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 16

Hurry past, as if you neither saw nor heard them; but you shall go to the third and do what she bids you; it will bring you good fortune.’

Who acts: you, first, same · What happens: hurry, see, hear, go, do, bid · To what, where: princesses, third, you, good fortune

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, first, same), 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	Hurry	hurry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	past	past	ADV	_	1 Hurry	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
7	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 saw	cc:preconj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hurry	parataxis
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 heard	cc
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hurry	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 third	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 third	det
19	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 go	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 go	conj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 bids	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bids	nsubj
24	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 do	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 bids	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 bring	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bring	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bring	aux
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hurry	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obj
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fortune	amod
32	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bring	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hurry	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Hurry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurry	imperative	you not said here				past property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see a condition, not said to happen	past	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	hear	past	you not said here	princesses = princess				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	go	shall	you			the third		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to third=Initial_Location
5	do	present	you not said here					tree rules
6	bid	present	first	you				tree rules
7	bring	future	same	good fortune	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination fortune=Theme

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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