The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 19
Go everywhere and do anything you like; only one thing I beg and beseech you, do not open the little iron door in the north tower, which is closed with seven locks and seven bolts; for if you do, we shall both suffer for it.’
Who acts: you, I, we · What happens: go, do, like, beg, beseech, not open · To what, where: anything, one thing, you, little iron door, north tower
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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, I, we), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 do | cc |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 anything | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 thing | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 thing | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 thing | nummod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 beg | nsubj |
| 13 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beseech | cc |
| 15 | beseech | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 beg | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 beseech | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 open | punct |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 open | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 open | advmod |
| 20 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 door | amod |
| 23 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 door | compound |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 open | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 tower | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tower | det |
| 27 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tower | compound |
| 28 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 open | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 closed | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 closed | aux:pass |
| 32 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 tower | acl:relcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 locks | case |
| 34 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 locks | nummod |
| 35 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 closed | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bolts | cc |
| 37 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 bolts | nummod |
| 38 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 locks | conj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 suffer | punct |
| 40 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 do | mark |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 do | mark |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 do | nsubj |
| 43 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 suffer | advcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 do | punct |
| 45 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 suffer | nsubj |
| 46 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 suffer | aux |
| 47 | both | both | ADV | _ | 48 suffer | advmod |
| 48 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 open | conj |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 it | case |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 suffer | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | everywhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | present | I | one thing not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | beseech | present | I not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not open | infinitive · do-support | the little iron door | the north tower | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in tower=Location | ||||
| 7 | close | present · passive | the north tower | with seven locks and seven bolts | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with lock=Theme | ||||
| 8 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | suffer | shall | we | for tower; both property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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