More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 31
"Hold in," said one; "beware lest my sheep leap over the bridge."
Who acts: you, one, my · What happens: hold in, say, beware, leap · To what, where: bridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, my), 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 | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 2 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 Hold | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hold | advcl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 beware | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 beware | punct |
| 10 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hold | conj |
| 11 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 14 leap | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 leap | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leap | amod |
| 14 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beware | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 bridge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bridge | det |
| 17 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beware | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beware in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the bridge | lest my sheep leap | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | leap in a quote | my | nom leap «act transitive»: poss=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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