The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 41

The Editor cannot say ‘good-bye’ without advising them, as they pursue their studies, to read The Rose and the Ring, by the late Mr. Thackeray, with pictures by the author.

Who acts: Editor, pictures · What happens: not say, advise, pursue, read, study · To what, where: good bye, pictures, studies, Rose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Editor, pictures), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Editor	det
2	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 bye	punct
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bye	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 good	punct
9	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 bye	punct
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 advising	mark
12	advising	advise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 say	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 advising	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pursue	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 pursue	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pursue	nsubj
17	pursue	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 studies	nmod:poss
19	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pursue	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 read	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 read	mark
22	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pursue	conj
23	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Rose	det
24	Rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 read	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Ring	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Ring	det
27	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Rose	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Thackeray	punct
29	by	by	ADP	_	33 Thackeray	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Thackeray	det
31	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Thackeray	amod
32	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Thackeray	nmod:desc
33	Thackeray	Thackeray	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 read	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pictures	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 pictures	case
36	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 read	obl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 author	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 author	det
39	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 read	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	can	the Editor	good bye		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bye=Topic
2	advise speech: other	gerund	the Editor not said here	pictures = picture		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	pursue	present	pictures = picture	pictures's studies		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Theme
4	read	to-infinitive	pictures = picture not said here	the Rose and the Ring	by the late Thackeray Mr.; with pictures; by the author	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Topic
5	study		pictures = picture			nom study «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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