The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 63

‘Go about everywhere, keep watch over everything; only do not venture to look into that closet there.’

Who acts: you · What happens: go about, keep, not venture, look · To what, where: watch, everything

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 everywhere	advmod
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 Go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
7	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 keep	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 venture	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 venture	advmod
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 venture	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 venture	advmod
14	venture	venture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 venture	xcomp
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 closet	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 closet	det
19	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 look	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go about	imperative	you not said here			everywhere property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	watch	everything		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over everything=Location
3	not venture	infinitive · do-support	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	to-infinitive	you not said here		there	into that closet	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into closet=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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