The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 89
“Stop!” he cried, “whoever you may be, and do not let a disgraceful impostor take you in.
Who acts: horseman, disgraceful impostor · What happens: stop, cry, be, not let, take in · To what, where: whoever, disgraceful impostor, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horseman, disgraceful impostor), 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 | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whoever | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 whoever | punct |
| 9 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cried | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 be | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 whoever | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 let | advmod |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 impostor | det |
| 19 | disgraceful | disgraceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 impostor | amod |
| 20 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | obj |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 take | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | horseman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | whoever | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not let in a quote | infinitive · do-support | horseman not said here | a disgraceful impostor | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take in in a quote | infinitive | a disgraceful impostor not said here | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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