The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 90

“If I go to sleep here wild beasts will come and eat me!

Who acts: thing, wild beasts · What happens: go, sleep, come, eat · To what, where: thing

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, wild beasts), 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	_	11 come	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	xcomp
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beasts	amod
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eat	cc
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 eat	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thing		here	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	thing not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	future	wild beasts			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat in a quote	infinitive	wild beasts not said here	thing		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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