The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 28
‘And mind you dance your very best,’ added the doctor.
Who acts: you · What happens: dance, add · To what, where: mind, doctor
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dance | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mind | cc |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dance | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dance | nsubj |
| 5 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 best | nmod:poss |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 best | advmod |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 dance | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dance | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dance | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 doctor | det |
| 13 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | present | you | mind | your best obl | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the doctor | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/28/