The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 26
‘Beware of your life; make friends with no man; do not ride fast, or let the water go out of your hand; believe no one, and flee flattering tongues.
Who acts: you, water · What happens: beware, make, not ride, let, go out, believe · To what, where: friends, water, hand, one, tongues
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, water), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 2 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Beware | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Beware | conj |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ride | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 ride | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 ride | advmod |
| 15 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Beware | parataxis |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 ride | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 ride | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 let | obj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 believe | punct |
| 28 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 ride | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 believe | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flee | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flee | cc |
| 33 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 believe | conj |
| 34 | flattering | flatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 flee | xcomp |
| 35 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 flattering | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | of your life | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | you not said here | friends | with no man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | |||
| 3 | not ride | infinitive · do-support | fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | the water | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go out | infinitive | the water not said here | your hand | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | believe | infinitive | no one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | flee | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | flatter | gerund | tongues | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tongue=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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