The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 68
Take my advice, therefore, and if you wish to save your life follow some other path.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, wish, save, follow · To what, where: advice, life, other path
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 (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 advice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wish | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 wish | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 save | mark |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wish | xcomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 save | obj |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 save | advcl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 path | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 path | amod |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follow | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | my advice | therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | your life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | present | you not said here | some other path | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
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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