The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 45

You must not speak or laugh for six years, and must make in that time six shirts for us out of star-flowers.

Who acts: You · What happens: not speak, laugh, make · To what, where: six shirts, star flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 speak	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 laugh	cc
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 speak	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laugh	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 make	cc
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 speak	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obl
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 shirts	nummod
18	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 shirts	nmod
21	out	out	ADP	_	25 flowers	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 flowers	case
23	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flowers	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 star	punct
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	must	You					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	infinitive	You not said here			year		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	must	You not said here	six shirts	star flowers	time	for us	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shirt=Material for we=Beneficiary

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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