The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 75

Then go at once to the stable, and pay no heed to anything except what I tell you.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: go, pay, tell · To what, where: stable, heed, 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 go	advmod
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 go	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stable	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stable	det
7	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pay	cc
10	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 heed	det
12	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pay	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 anything	case
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 pay	obl
15	except	except	ADP	_	16 what	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 anything	nmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			the stable	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location
2	pay	infinitive	you not said here	no heed				to anything	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
3	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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