The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 198
‘Don’t mention such things, or you will lose your head!’
Who acts: you · What happens: not mention, lose · To what, where: such things, head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 mention | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 mention | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 mention | advmod |
| 4 | mention | mention | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mention | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lose | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 lose | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 lose | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lose | aux |
| 11 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mention | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lose | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 mention | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 mention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mention speech: other | imperative · do-support | you not said here | such things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose | future | you | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
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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