The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 14

You had better leave it alone; you know nothing about it.’

Who acts: You · What happens: have, leave, know · To what, where: leg, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	xcomp
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 know	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 nothing	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	You		good property	tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	You not said here	leg	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	know	present	you	nothing	about leg	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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