The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 28

Hidden in the cradle, you will find a goose’s wing: throw this out of the window, and I will be with you directly; but be sure you tell no one of all the things that have befallen you.’

Who acts: you, I, things · What happens: hide, find, throw, be, tell, befall · To what, where: cradle, wing, this, window, one, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, I, things), 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	Hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 find	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 cradle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cradle	det
4	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hidden	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hidden	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 goose	det
10	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wing	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 goose	case
12	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 throw	punct
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 find	conj
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 throw	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 window	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 you	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 you	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 you	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 you	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 you	cop
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 throw	parataxis
27	directly	directly	ADV	_	26 you	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 sure	cc
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 sure	cop
31	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 find	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 tell	nsubj
33	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sure	ccomp
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 things	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 things	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 things	det
39	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 one	nmod
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 befallen	nsubj
41	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 befallen	aux
42	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 things	acl:relcl
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 befallen	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	participle	you not said here		the cradle		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location
2	find	future	you	a goose's wing			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Topic
3	throw	infinitive	you not said here	this	the window		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent this=Theme out window=Destination
4	is	future	I			with you; directly property	tree rules
5	is	infinitive	you not said here			sure property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	present	you	no one of all things			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
7	befall	present · perfect	all things	you			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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