The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 24
‘Don’t look at things that aren’t intended for the likes of you!’
Who acts: you · What happens: not look, not intend · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. 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 look | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 intended | aux:pass |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 intended | advmod |
| 10 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 likes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 likes | det |
| 13 | likes | like | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 intended | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 likes | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | imperative · do-support | you not said here | at things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not intend | present · passive | things | for the likes of you | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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