The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 65
Come and enjoy yourself, but in order that my brothers mayn’t see you, put this band round your waist and then you’ll be invisible.’
Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: come, enjoy, not see, put, be · To what, where: yourself, you, band, order
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, brothers), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 enjoy | cc |
| 3 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 enjoy | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 put | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 band | det |
| 19 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 waist | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 waist | nmod:poss |
| 22 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 invisible | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 invisible | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 invisible | nsubj |
| 26 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 invisible | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 invisible | cop |
| 28 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 put | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enjoy | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not see | may | my brothers | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | this band | order | round your waist | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent band=Theme in order=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | future | you | then | invisible property | tree rules |
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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