The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 84
Above all, heed not the laughs and scoffs that will arise on all sides, and never turn round.
Who acts: you, laughs · What happens: not heed, arise, not turn round · To what, where: laughs, all, sides
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, laughs), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 heed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | heed | heed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 heed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 laughs | det |
| 7 | laughs | laugh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scoffs | cc |
| 9 | scoffs | scoff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laughs | conj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 arise | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 arise | aux |
| 12 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 laughs | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 sides | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 sides | det |
| 15 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 arise | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turn | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turn | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 turn | advmod |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heed | conj |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 turn | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not heed | imperative | you not said here | the laughs and scoffs | all | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme | |||
| 2 | arise | future | the laughs and scoffs | all sides | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 3 | not turn round | present | you not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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