The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 31
“I have followed you from the harbour,” answered he, “and have been often in sore dread lest my strength should fail me.
Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: follow, answer, be, fail · To what, where: I, harbour, sore dread, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu), 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 followed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | aux |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 answered | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 harbour | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 harbour | det |
| 8 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fail | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fail | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 fail | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 often | cc |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 often | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 often | cop |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 26 fail | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 dread | case |
| 20 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dread | amod |
| 21 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 often | obl |
| 22 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 24 strength | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 strength | nmod:poss |
| 24 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dread | nmod |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 fail | aux |
| 26 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 fail | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | present · perfect · passive | I | the harbour | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme you=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect | sore dread lest my strength | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fail in a quote | should | Tiidu | me | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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