The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 69

As soon as you come into the presence of my father, throw yourself at once on the ground and approach him on your knees.

Who acts: you · What happens: come, throw, approach · To what, where: presence, yourself, ground, father, knees

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 come	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 presence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 presence	det
8	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 presence	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throw	punct
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
14	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 throw	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 throw	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 approach	cc
21	approach	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 approach	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 knees	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 knees	nmod:poss
25	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 approach	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	you		the presence of my father	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_Location
2	throw	infinitive	you not said here	yourself	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme at once=Destination
3	approach	present	you not said here	father	your knees		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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