The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 171

‘Let this teach you to mind what I tell you another time,’ she remarked severely.

Who acts: you, this, I, Melinette · What happens: let, teach, mind, tell, remark · To what, where: this, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, I, Melinette), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Let	obj
4	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 teach	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 mind	mark
7	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 teach	xcomp
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 mind	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remarked	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 remarked	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remarked	nsubj
17	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	advcl
18	severely	severely	ADV	_	17 remarked	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	this				tree rules
2	teach speech: other	infinitive	this not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	mind	to-infinitive	this not said here					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	present	I		you	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	remark speech: assert	past	Melinette				severely property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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