The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 38
Tear up the rose tree and the roots too, and don’t leave anything behind, however strange it may be!’
Who acts: you · What happens: tear up, not leave, be · To what, where: rose tree, anything
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. 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 | Tear | tear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Tear | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 4 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tear | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 roots | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roots | det |
| 8 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tree | conj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Tear | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 leave | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 leave | advmod |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tear | conj |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 14 leave | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 strange | punct |
| 18 | however | however | ADV | _ | 19 strange | advmod |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tear | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 be | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 strange | cop |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tear | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear up | imperative | you not said here | the rose tree and the roots | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not leave | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | anything | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | infinitive | however, strange property | tree rules |
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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