The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 66
Be sure you do not go outside, or some wild beast may eat you.”
Who acts: you, wild beast · What happens: be, not go, eat · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wild beast), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sure | cop |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eat | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 beast | det |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beast | amod |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 eat | aux |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not go | present · do-support | you | outside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | may | some wild beast | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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