The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 18
You must slip into the Emperor’s palace by night and steal the bird with the cage; but be very careful not to touch the walls as you go out.’
Who acts: You · What happens: slip, steal, be, not touch, go out · To what, where: palace, bird, walls
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. 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 | 3 slip | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 slip | aux |
| 3 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Emperor | case |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slip | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slip | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 steal | cc |
| 12 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slip | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steal | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 cage | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cage | det |
| 17 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bird | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 careful | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 careful | cc |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 careful | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 careful | advmod |
| 22 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slip | conj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 touch | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 touch | mark |
| 25 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 careful | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 walls | det |
| 27 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 touch | obj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 go | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 go | nsubj |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 touch | advcl |
| 31 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 go | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slip | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 slip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | must | You | the Emperor's palace | night | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | steal | present | You not said here | the bird | with the cage | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | infinitive | You not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not touch | to-infinitive | the walls | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme | |||||
| 5 | go out | present | you | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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