The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 79

Be sure you never look at her.’

Who acts: you · What happens: be, not look

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 (you), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 sure	cop
2	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sure	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sure	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					sure property	tree rules
2	not look	present	you					at Fairy	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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