The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 80
Keep your eyes and ears open, and your mouth shut, obey without questions.
Who acts: you, ears · What happens: keep, open, obey · To what, where: eyes
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 (you, ears), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 open | cc |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 open | nsubj |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shut | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shut | cc |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shut | nsubj |
| 11 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 obey | punct |
| 13 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shut | conj |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 questions | case |
| 15 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 obey | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | your eyes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | present | ears | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | obey | present | you not said here | without questions | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: 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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