The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 67
‘But you must put yourselves in front of me, so that no one can see.’
Who acts: you, one · What happens: put, see · To what, where: yourselves, front
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), 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 | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 front | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 see | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 put | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | must | you | yourselves | front of me | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | can | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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