The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 28

Be a good child, and as you love me, do not force me to break my word, but give yourself up with as good grace as you can to a most unhappy fate.’

Who acts: good child, you, me, my · What happens: be, love, not force, not break, give up, word · To what, where: me, word, yourself

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good child, you, me, my), 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	Be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Be	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 force	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 force	cc
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 love	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 love	nsubj
9	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 force	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 love	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 love	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 force	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 force	advmod
14	force	force	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 child	acl:relcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 force	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 break	mark
17	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 force	xcomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 word	nmod:poss
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 break	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 force	parataxis
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 give	iobj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 give	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 grace	case
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 grace	case
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grace	amod
28	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 can	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 can	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	36 fate	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fate	det
34	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	35 unhappy	advmod
35	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fate	amod
36	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 can	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Be	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be	infinitive	a good child				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	love	present	you	me			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	not force	infinitive · do-support	a good child not said here	me			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not break	to-infinitive	me not said here	my word			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient
5	give up	infinitive			yourself	with good grace	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Source
6	word		my				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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