The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 88
But see that you do not come back without an answer of some kind.’
Who acts: you · What happens: see, not come back, answer · To what, where: kind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 see | cc |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 come | advmod |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | ccomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 answer | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 answer | det |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kind | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 kind | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answer | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not come back | present · do-support | you | without a answer of some kind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer | some kind | nom answer «communication transitive»: of=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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