Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 106
But be careful not to spill any of the liquid, as each drop means a man’s life.”
Who acts: you, drop · What happens: be, not spill, mean · To what, where: any, life
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, drop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 careful | cc |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 spill | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 spill | mark |
| 6 | spill | spill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | parataxis |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 spill | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 liquid | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 liquid | det |
| 10 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 any | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 means | mark |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 drop | det |
| 14 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | nsubj |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spill | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not spill | to-infinitive | any of the liquid | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location any=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | each drop | a man's life | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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