The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 48
To-morrow you will have to stack it all in the shed, and, as you value your life, be careful not to leave the smallest strand behind.’
Who acts: you · What happens: have, stack, value, be, not leave · To what, where: morrow, shed, life, smallest strand
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stack | mark |
| 8 | stack | stack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stack | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 it | det |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 shed | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shed | det |
| 13 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stack | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 careful | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 careful | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 value | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 value | nsubj |
| 19 | value | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 careful | advcl |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 value | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 value | punct |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 careful | cop |
| 24 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 have | conj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 leave | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 leave | mark |
| 27 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 careful | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 strand | det |
| 29 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 strand | amod |
| 30 | strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leave | obj |
| 31 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 27 leave | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | you | to morrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stack | to-infinitive | you not said here | morrow | the shed | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in shed=Destination | |||
| 3 | value | present | you | your life | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | you not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not leave | to-infinitive | you not said here | the smallest strand | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strand=Theme |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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