The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 32

Be careful, however, when wearing the shape of some beast or bird, not to laugh, or thou wilt certainly forget the magic word and remain an animal for ever.’

Who acts: you, thou · What happens: be, wear, not laugh, forget, remain · To what, where: shape, magic word, animal

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 careful	cop
2	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laugh	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	18 laugh	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 wearing	advmod
7	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 laugh	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shape	det
9	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wearing	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 beast	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 beast	det
12	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shape	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 bird	cc
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beast	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laugh	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 laugh	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 laugh	mark
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 careful	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forget	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 forget	cc
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 forget	nsubj
22	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	24 forget	aux
23	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	24 forget	advmod
24	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 laugh	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 word	det
26	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 word	compound
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forget	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 remain	cc
29	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 forget	conj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 animal	det
31	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remain	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 ever	case
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 remain	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 laugh	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		careful property	tree rules
2	wear	gerund		the shape of some beast or bird		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shape=Source
3	not laugh	to-infinitive			however property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	forget	future	thou	the magic word	certainly property	tree rules
5	remain	infinitive	thou not said here	a animal		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Attribute

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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