The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 77
‘“Hold on tight, little girl, if you don’t want to break your neck.”
Who acts: you · What happens: hold on, not want, break · To what, where: neck
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hold | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hold | punct |
| 3 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 Hold | compound:prt |
| 5 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tight | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Hold | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 13 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Hold | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 break | mark |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 want | xcomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 break | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hold | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | you not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your neck | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=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.
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