The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 36
But whatever you do, be sure not to put it in the beautiful cage, or everybody in the castle will know that you have stolen it.’
Who acts: you, everybody · What happens: do, be, not put, know, steal · To what, where: whatever, Blackbird, beautiful cage, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, everybody), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sure | cc |
| 2 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 do | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sure | cop |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 put | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cage | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cage | amod |
| 15 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 18 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 know | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 everybody | nmod |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 stolen | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 stolen | aux |
| 27 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 know | ccomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 stolen | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | you | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not put | to-infinitive | you not said here | Blackbird | the beautiful cage | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cage=Destination | |||
| 4 | know | future | everybody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | steal | present · perfect · passive | you | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Theme |
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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