The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 16
You must be careful not to waken the man, but you must unfasten the swan and take it away with you.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, not waken, unfasten, take away · To what, where: man, swan
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 careful | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 careful | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 careful | cop |
| 4 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 waken | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 waken | mark |
| 7 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 careful | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waken | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unfasten | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 unfasten | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 unfasten | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 unfasten | aux |
| 14 | unfasten | unfasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 careful | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 swan | det |
| 16 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unfasten | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unfasten | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 take | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | You | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not waken | to-infinitive | You not said here | the man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 3 | unfasten | must | you | the swan | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take away | infinitive | you not said here | swan | with you; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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