The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 3
This you must rub all over you, and when you are quite covered, you may suffer yourself to be cast into the oven, for the fire will not hurt you, nor anything else.’
Who acts: This, you, fire · What happens: rub, cover, suffer, cast, not hurt · To what, where: you, yourself, oven
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, you, fire), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 rub | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 rub | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rub | aux |
| 4 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 you | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 rub | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 suffer | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 suffer | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 covered | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 covered | aux:pass |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 covered | advmod |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 suffer | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 covered | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 suffer | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 suffer | aux |
| 18 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rub | conj |
| 19 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 suffer | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cast | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 cast | aux:pass |
| 22 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 suffer | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 oven | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 oven | det |
| 25 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cast | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hurt | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 hurt | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fire | det |
| 29 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hurt | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 hurt | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 hurt | advmod |
| 32 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 suffer | advcl |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 hurt | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 anything | punct |
| 35 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 36 anything | cc |
| 36 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 rub | parataxis |
| 37 | else | else | ADV | _ | 36 anything | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rub | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 rub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | must | This | over you | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over you=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cover | present · passive | you | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | suffer | may | you | yourself | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cast | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | the oven | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: into oven=Product | ||||
| 5 | not hurt | future | the fire | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
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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