The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 113
“Well, perhaps, if you come back directly,” replied Helga, doubtfully; “but you must be very quick, or father will find out!”
Who acts: you, Helga, father · What happens: come back, reply, be, find out · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Helga, father), 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 | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 come | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 perhaps | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | advcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 doubtfully | punct |
| 16 | doubtfully | doubtfully | ADV | _ | 13 replied | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 quick | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 quick | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 quick | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 quick | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 quick | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 quick | advmod |
| 24 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 find | cc |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 quick | parataxis |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 find | compound:prt |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 quick | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | directly, perhaps property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | Helga | doubtfully property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | must | you | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find out in a quote | future | father | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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