The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 68

‘Now,’ she began, ‘be sure you do exactly in every respect what I tell you.

Who acts: creature, you, I · What happens: begin, be, do, tell · To what, where: respect, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, you, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 began	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct
4	’	'	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sure	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 sure	punct
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 sure	cop
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 began	parataxis
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sure	ccomp
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 respect	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 respect	det
16	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 respect	nmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
19	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	creature			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	infinitive					sure property	tree rules
3	do	present	you		every respect		exactly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present	I	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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