The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 67
‘Now, attend to this: whatever happens, do not open your oranges till you reach the bank of a river, or a fountain.
Who acts: you, whatever · What happens: attend, happen, not open, reach · To what, where: oranges, bank
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whatever), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 attend | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 attend | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 attend | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 happens | punct |
| 8 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 happens | nsubj |
| 9 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 attend | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 open | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 open | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 open | advmod |
| 13 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 happens | parataxis |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 oranges | nmod:poss |
| 15 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 open | obj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 reach | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 reach | nsubj |
| 18 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 open | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bank | det |
| 20 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reach | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bank | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fountain | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 fountain | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fountain | det |
| 27 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reach | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | imperative | you not said here | now | to this | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to this=Theme | |||
| 2 | happen | present | whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not open | infinitive · do-support | your oranges | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location orange=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | present | you | the bank of a river | a fountain obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=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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