The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 37
Don’t think so much about yourself, or you will be knocked against a stone.
Who acts: you · What happens: not think, knock · To what, where: you, stone
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 think | advmod |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 think | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 yourself | case |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 much | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knocked | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 knocked | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 knocked | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knocked | aux:pass |
| 13 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 think | conj |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 stone | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knocked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | knock | future · passive | you | a stone | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme against stone=Destination |
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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