The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 3
It must be done in all secrecy, and the priest must not know of it, otherwise I shall get into trouble, as it is forbidden.
Who acts: priest, I · What happens: do, not know, get, forbid · To what, where: clerk, secrecy, trouble
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 secrecy | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 secrecy | det |
| 7 | secrecy | secrecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 priest | det |
| 11 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 18 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 21 get | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | parataxis |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 trouble | case |
| 23 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forbidden | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 forbidden | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 forbidden | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 28 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 get | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must · passive | clerk | all secrecy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not know | must | the priest | of clerk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get | shall | I | trouble | otherwise property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination | |||
| 4 | forbid | present · passive | clerk | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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