The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 54

When she is in the lake, be sure you hide her clothes, which are of dazzling whiteness, and do not give them back to her unless she consents to follow you.’

Who acts: ‘, lake, you, clothes · What happens: be, hide, not give, consent, follow · To what, where: lake, clothes, you

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 (‘, lake, you, clothes), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lake	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lake	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lake	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sure	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lake	punct
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	cop
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 hide	nsubj
11	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sure	ccomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 clothes	nmod:poss
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 hide	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whiteness	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 whiteness	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 whiteness	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 whiteness	case
18	dazzling	dazzling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 whiteness	amod
19	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clothes	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 give	cc
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 give	advmod
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	back	back	ADV	_	24 give	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 back	obl
29	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	31 consents	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 consents	nsubj
31	consents	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 give	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 follow	mark
33	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 consents	xcomp
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 follow	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	‘			the lake		tree rules
2	is	infinitive	the lake				sure property	tree rules
3	hide	present	you	‘'s clothes and dazzling whiteness				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
4	is	present	‘'s clothes and dazzling whiteness				of dazzling whiteness	tree rules
5	not give	infinitive · do-support			clothes			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	consent a condition, not said to happen	present	‘					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	follow	to-infinitive	‘ not said here	you				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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