The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 26
“And you need not be anxious about going,” she added, “for I will rule the country while you are away as carefully as you could yourself.”
Who acts: you, wife · What happens: not be, go, add, rule, be · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wife), 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 | _ | 7 anxious | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 anxious | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 anxious | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 anxious | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 anxious | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 anxious | cop |
| 7 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 added | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 added | nsubj |
| 13 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 anxious | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rule | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 rule | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 rule | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 rule | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 rule | aux |
| 19 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 added | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rule | obj |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 away | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 away | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 away | cop |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 rule | parataxis |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 carefully | advmod |
| 27 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 25 away | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 could | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 could | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 away | advcl |
| 31 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 could | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 anxious | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | you | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | gerund | wife not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | rule in a quote | future | wife | the country | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | you | away, carefully property | tree rules |
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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