The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 86
But no one could think of any advice to give him, beyond taking care that the child never went near the mill-pond.
Who acts: one, child · What happens: think, give, take, not go · To what, where: miller, care, mill pond · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (one, child), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 think | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 advice | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 advice | det |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 14 taking | mark |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 give | advcl |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 went | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 went | advmod |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taking | advcl |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 pond | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pond | det |
| 23 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pond | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 mill | punct |
| 25 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could | no one | of any advice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | miller | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not go | past | the child | the mill pond | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near pond=Location |
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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