The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 88
There you must remain lying until day dawns, and whether she threatens you or entreats you, you must not come out of it, or give her any answer.
Who acts: you, postern · What happens: remain, lie, threaten, entreat, not come out, give · To what, where: you, answer, postern
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, postern), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 remain | expl |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 remain | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 remain | aux |
| 4 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 remain | xcomp |
| 6 | until | until | ADP | _ | 8 dawns | case |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dawns | compound |
| 8 | dawns | dawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lying | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 threatens | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threatens | nsubj |
| 13 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 threatens | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 entreats | cc |
| 16 | entreats | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 threatens | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 entreats | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threatens | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 remain | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 give | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 give | cc |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 remain | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 give | iobj |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 answer | det |
| 31 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | must | you | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | you not said here | dawn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | threaten | present | postern | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | entreat | present | postern not said here | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not come out | must | you | of hurry; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | give | infinitive | you not said here | any answer | postern | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient answer=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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