The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 24
But don’t take any notice of him; just set him upon my apron, and help yourself to the money.
Who acts: you · What happens: not take, set, help, notice · To what, where: notice, lip, apron, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3274): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 take | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 notice | det |
| 6 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 notice | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 apron | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 apron | nmod:poss |
| 15 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 help | cc |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | conj |
| 19 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 money | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 money | det |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | imperative · do-support | you not said here | any notice of lip | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | lip | my apron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon apron=Destination | ||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | yourself | to the money | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | notice | lip | nom notice «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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