The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 46
As long as you do that, no evil can come to her; so guard this treasure as the apple of your eye, and teach your daughter to do so likewise.’
Who acts: you, evil · What happens: do, come, guard, teach · To what, where: that, queen, treasure, daughter
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, evil), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 come | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 evil | det |
| 9 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 guard | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 guard | advmod |
| 16 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | conj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 treasure | det |
| 18 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 guard | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 apple | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 apple | det |
| 21 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 guard | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 eye | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eye | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 apple | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 teach | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 teach | cc |
| 27 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | advcl |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 29 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 teach | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 teach | xcomp |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 likewise | advmod |
| 33 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 31 do | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | can | no evil | queen | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | guard | infinitive | no evil not said here | this treasure | as the apple of your eye | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | teach speech: other | infinitive | no evil not said here | your daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | no evil not said here | likewise property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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