The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 100

‘As you have hitherto always behaved well in my service I will not send you to prison; but leave your place instantly and never let me see your face again.’

Who acts: you, I, me, my · What happens: behave, not send, leave, not let, see, service · To what, where: service, you, prison, place, me, face

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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, me, my), 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	_	7 behaved	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	7 behaved	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 behaved	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 behaved	aux
5	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	7 behaved	advmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 behaved	advmod
7	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 behaved	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 service	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 service	nmod:poss
11	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 behaved	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 send	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 send	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 send	advmod
15	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 service	acl:relcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 send	iobj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 prison	case
18	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 send	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 leave	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 leave	cc
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 behaved	parataxis
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 place	nmod:poss
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obj
24	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	21 leave	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 let	advmod
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 leave	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 face	nmod:poss
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
32	again	again	ADV	_	29 see	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 leave	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behave	present · perfect	you			my service		always, hitherto, well property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
2	not send	future	I	my service not said here	you	prison			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to prison=Destination
3	leave	infinitive		your place				instantly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	not let	infinitive		me					tree rules
5	see	infinitive	me not said here	your face			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
6	service		my						nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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