The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 79

‘We are going to cross the sea; be very careful not to speak to me.’

Who acts: We · What happens: go, cross, be, not speak · To what, where: sea, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	_	4 going	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cross	mark
6	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 careful	punct
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 careful	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 careful	advmod
12	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cross	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 speak	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 speak	mark
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 careful	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 speak	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	We				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cross	to-infinitive	We not said here	the sea			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient
3	is	infinitive	We not said here			careful property	tree rules
4	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive	We not said here		me		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-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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