The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 80

The Vizir will tell you to drink it, but be careful not to do so.

Who acts: Vizir · What happens: tell, drink, be, not do · To what, where: you, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vizir), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vizir	det
2	Vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
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 drink	mark
7	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drink	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 careful	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 careful	cc
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 careful	cop
12	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 careful	xcomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	15 do	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	the Vizir		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Vizir not said here	water			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	infinitive	the Vizir not said here			careful property	tree rules
4	not do	to-infinitive	the Vizir not said here				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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