The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 79
Be very careful never to let her hair go, bid her lead you to your brother, and force her to bring him back to life.
Who acts: you, power · What happens: be, not let, go, bid, force, bring back · To what, where: power, lead, brother, life
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, power), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | cop |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 careful | advmod |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 let | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 let | mark |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | parataxis |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bid | punct |
| 11 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lead | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bid | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bid | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 force | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 force | cc |
| 20 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 force | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bring | mark |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 force | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 bring | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not let | to-infinitive | power | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | power not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bid | infinitive | power's lead | to your brother | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | force | infinitive | power | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | bring back | to-infinitive | power not said here | brother | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Destination |
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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