The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 29
She will then tell you to go your way back again; but take care not to stir from the spot.
Who acts: Venus · What happens: tell, go back, take, not stir · To what, where: you, way, care, spot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (Venus), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 stir | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stir | mark |
| 18 | stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 spot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spot | det |
| 21 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stir | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | Venus | you | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Venus not said here | your way | again | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not stir | to-infinitive | the spot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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