The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 94

Then she took from a shelf a tiny golden box, and gave it to Uraschimataro, praying him to keep it carefully, and above all things never to open it.

Who acts: princess · What happens: take, give, pray, keep, not open · To what, where: shelf, box, Uraschimataro, heart, things

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 (princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 shelf	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shelf	det
6	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 box	det
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 box	amod
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 box	amod
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shelf	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Uraschimataro	case
16	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 praying	punct
18	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 gave	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 praying	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 keep	mark
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 praying	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 keep	obj
23	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	21 keep	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 open	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 open	cc
26	above	above	ADP	_	28 things	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 things	det
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 open	obl
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 open	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 open	mark
31	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 open	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	princess			a shelf a tiny golden box	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from shelf=Initial_Location
2	give	past	princess not said here	box	Uraschimataro				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to uraschimataro=Recipient
3	pray	gerund	princess not said here	heart					tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	princess not said here	box				carefully property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	not open	to-infinitive		box		all things			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme above thing=Location

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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