The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 81

Be grateful if you will, but never speak unless you are spoken to.’

Who acts: you · What happens: be, not speak, speak · To what, where: you · 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 (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 grateful	cop
2	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 will	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 will	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 grateful	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 speak	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 speak	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 speak	advmod
9	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 grateful	parataxis
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	13 spoken	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 spoken	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 spoken	aux:pass
13	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 speak	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 spoken	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grateful	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 grateful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		grateful property	tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	infinitive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		you		tree rules

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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