The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 98
But be careful not to leave the house till I come.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, not leave, come · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 careful | cc |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 leave | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 leave | mark |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not leave | to-infinitive | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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