English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 24

And what you've not to do is this: bite no bit, and drink no drop, however hungry or thirsty you be; drink a drop, or bite a bit, while in Elfland you be and never will you see Middle Earth again.”

Who acts: this, you · What happens: be, not do, bite, drink, not see · To what, where: bit, drop, Middle Earth

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 what	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 've	nsubj
4	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 've	xcomp
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	cop
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 what	nsubj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 bite	punct
11	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 what	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bite	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drink	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drink	cc
16	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 bite	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 drop	det
18	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drink	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hungry	punct
20	however	however	ADV	_	21 hungry	advmod
21	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 drink	parataxis
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 thirsty	cc
23	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hungry	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 be	nsubj
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 hungry	cop
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 drink	punct
27	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 bite	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 drop	det
29	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drink	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bite	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 bite	cc
32	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 bite	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bit	det
34	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bite	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Elfland	punct
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 Elfland	mark
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 Elfland	case
38	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 what	appos
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 be	nsubj
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 Elfland	acl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 see	cc
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	45 see	advmod
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 see	aux
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 see	nsubj
45	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 be	conj
46	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Earth	compound
47	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 see	obj
48	again	again	ADV	_	45 see	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 Elfland	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this				tree rules
2	not do	to-infinitive	this not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bite	infinitive		no bit			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
4	drink	infinitive		no drop			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient
5	is	infinitive				however, hungry property	tree rules
6	be						tree rules
7	drink	infinitive		a drop			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient
8	bite	infinitive		a bit			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
9	not see	future	you	Middle Earth	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earth=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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