The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 11
You need never mind what you see or hear, it will not be able to do you any harm, if you remain in your place until you hear the lid of the chest slam down again behind the dead; then all danger is past, and you can go about the church, wherever you please.’
Who acts: You, it, danger · What happens: not mind, see, hear, not be, do, remain · To what, where: harm, you, place, lid, dead
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, it, danger), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mind | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mind | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 mind | advmod |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 see | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mind | ccomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 hear | cc |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 able | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 able | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mind | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | iobj |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 harm | det |
| 20 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remain | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 remain | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 remain | nsubj |
| 24 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mind | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 place | nmod:poss |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remain | obl |
| 28 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 hear | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 hear | nsubj |
| 30 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 remain | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 lid | det |
| 32 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hear | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 chest | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 chest | det |
| 35 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lid | nmod |
| 36 | slam | slam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 hear | conj |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 slam | compound:prt |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 slam | advmod |
| 39 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 41 dead | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 dead | det |
| 41 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 slam | obl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 past | punct |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 past | advmod |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 danger | det |
| 45 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 past | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 past | cop |
| 47 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mind | parataxis |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 go | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 go | cc |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 go | nsubj |
| 51 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 go | aux |
| 52 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 past | parataxis |
| 53 | about | about | ADP | _ | 55 church | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 church | det |
| 55 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 go | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 wherever | punct |
| 57 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 52 go | parataxis |
| 58 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 57 wherever | nsubj |
| 59 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 52 go | discourse |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 61 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 4 mind | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | present | You | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hear | present | you not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is | future | it | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | any harm | you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | remain a condition, not said to happen | present | you | your place | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 7 | hear | present | you | the lid of the chest | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lid=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | slam down | infinitive | you not said here | the dead | again | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||
| 9 | is | present | all danger | then | past property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | go | can | you | about the church | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about church=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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