The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 83
Be careful, however, when wearing the shape of some beast or bird, not to laugh, or thou wilt certainly forget the magic word and remain an animal forever.”
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: be, wear, not laugh, forget, remain · To what, where: shape, magic word, animal
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 careful | cop |
| 2 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laugh | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 18 laugh | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 wearing | advmod |
| 7 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 laugh | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shape | det |
| 9 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wearing | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 beast | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 beast | det |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shape | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 bird | cc |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beast | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laugh | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 laugh | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 laugh | mark |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 careful | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forget | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 forget | cc |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 forget | nsubj |
| 22 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 24 forget | aux |
| 23 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 24 forget | advmod |
| 24 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 laugh | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 word | det |
| 26 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 word | compound |
| 27 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forget | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 remain | cc |
| 29 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 forget | conj |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 animal | det |
| 31 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 remain | obj |
| 32 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 29 remain | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 laugh | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | the shape of some beast or bird | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shape=Source | |||||
| 3 | not laugh | to-infinitive | however property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | forget | future | thou | the magic word | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | remain | infinitive | thou not said here | a animal | forever property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Attribute |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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