The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 12

‘I gave my head-gardener the strictest orders to watch the trees carefully, for the magician had warned my father that if one unripe fruit were plucked from the tree, all the rest would become rotten at once.

Who acts: I, magician, rest · What happens: give, watch, warn, pluck, become · To what, where: strictest orders, head gardener, trees, father, one, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, magician, rest), 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	_	3 gave	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gardener	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gardener	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 head	punct
7	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 orders	det
9	strictest	strict	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 orders	amod
10	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 watch	mark
12	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trees	det
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 watch	obj
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	12 watch	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 warned	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 warned	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 magician	det
19	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 warned	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 warned	aux
21	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 gave	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 warned	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 plucked	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 plucked	mark
26	one	one	PRON	PronType=Ind	30 plucked	nsubj:pass
27	unripe	unripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fruit	amod
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 one	parataxis
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 plucked	aux:pass
30	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 become	advcl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 tree	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 plucked	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 plucked	punct
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 rest	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rest	det
37	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 become	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 become	aux
39	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 warned	ccomp
40	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 become	xcomp
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 once	case
42	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	40 rotten	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	I	the strictest orders	my head gardener			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Recipient order=Theme
2	watch	to-infinitive	I not said here	the trees			carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	warn speech: warn	past · perfect	the magician		my father			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
4	pluck a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		one		the tree		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from tree=Source
5	become	would	all rest				rotten property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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