The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 23
This you must be careful to keep in a warm place for three months, when it will turn into a doll.
Who acts: This, place · What happens: be, keep, turn · To what, where: warm place, doll
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, place), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 careful | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 careful | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 careful | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 careful | cop |
| 5 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 careful | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 months | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 months | nummod |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 place | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turn | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 turn | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turn | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 turn | aux |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 keep | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 doll | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 doll | det |
| 22 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | This | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | This not said here | a warm place for three months | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | turn | future | place | a doll | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into doll=Trajectory |
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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