The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 14
She is always good and obedient, and will keep to the right path, and not wander away like her sisters, idle drones!’
Who acts: child · What happens: be, keep, not wander away
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 obedient | cc |
| 6 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 path | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 path | amod |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wander | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wander | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 wander | advmod |
| 18 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 wander | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 sisters | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wander | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drones | punct |
| 24 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 drones | amod |
| 25 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sisters | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | child | always, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | child not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | keep | future | to the right path | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not wander away | infinitive | like child's sisters and idle drones; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP 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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