The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 79
I am afraid to go back to the Sultan, for he will command his servants to turn me from the door.
Who acts: I, Abu · What happens: be, go back, command, turn · To what, where: servants, me, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Abu), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | xcomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Sultan | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sultan | det |
| 9 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 command | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 command | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 command | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 command | aux |
| 14 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 servants | nmod:poss |
| 16 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 command | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 turn | mark |
| 18 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 command | advcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 turn | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go back | to-infinitive | I not said here | to the Sultan result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sultan=Result | ||||
| 3 | command | future | Abu | Abu's servants | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | turn | to-infinitive | Abu not said here | me | the door | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme from door=Trajectory |
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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