The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 79
Something had put out his temper, for with a frown he said, ‘Watch carefully our ways in the house, and beware of making any mistake, or it will go ill with you.
Who acts: daring, mistake · What happens: put out, say, watch, beware, make, go · To what, where: Something, ways, house, mistake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daring, mistake), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 put | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 temper | nmod:poss |
| 6 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 frown | case |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 frown | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 frown | det |
| 11 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Watch | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Watch | punct |
| 16 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 16 Watch | advmod |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ways | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Watch | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Watch | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beware | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beware | cc |
| 25 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 Watch | conj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 making | mark |
| 27 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 beware | advcl |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 mistake | det |
| 29 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 making | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 go | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 go | aux |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 35 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 go | xcomp |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 you | case |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 ill | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past · perfect · passive | Something | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset temper=Goal | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | daring | for a frown | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | our ways | the house | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 4 | beware | infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | make | gerund | any mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | |||||
| 6 | go | future | mistake | ill property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | temper | daring | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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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