The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 27

‘Be sure that you are kind and civil to everyone you meet,’ called his mother, running after him; but he was in such a hurry to be off, that he did not wait to answer her, or even to look back.

Who acts: you, Medio · What happens: be, meet, call, run, not wait, answer · To what, where: mother, hurry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Medio), 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 sure	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 kind	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 kind	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 called	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 civil	cc
9	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 everyone	case
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 kind	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 meet	nsubj
13	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 everyone	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
16	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 running	punct
20	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 called	advcl
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 running	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 hurry	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 hurry	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hurry	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hurry	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 hurry	case
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 hurry	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hurry	det
30	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sure	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	33 off	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 off	cop
33	off	off	ADP	_	30 hurry	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wait	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 wait	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 wait	nsubj
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 wait	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 wait	advmod
39	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 hurry	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 answer	mark
41	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 wait	advcl
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 answer	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 look	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 look	cc
45	even	even	ADV	_	47 look	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 look	mark
47	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 wait	parataxis
48	back	back	ADV	_	47 look	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here				sure property	tree rules
2	is	present	you				to everyone; kind property	tree rules
3	be		you not said here					tree rules
4	meet	present	you					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	call	past		Medio's mother				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
6	run	gerund				after Medio		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	Medio		such hurry			tree rules
8	not wait	past · do-support	Medio					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	Medio not said here	mother				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
10	look back	to-infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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