The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 93
At last Labakan spoke with forced calmness, “Most gracious lord and father, do not let yourself be deceived by this man.
Who acts: man · What happens: speak, force, not let, deceive · To what, where: last Labakan, yourself · 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 (man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Labakan | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Labakan | amod |
| 3 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 calmness | case |
| 6 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 calmness | amod |
| 7 | calmness | calmness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lord | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lord | punct |
| 10 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 lord | amod |
| 11 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lord | amod |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calmness | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 father | cc |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lord | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 let | advmod |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoke | conj |
| 19 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 deceived | aux:pass |
| 21 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 let | xcomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deceived | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | last Labakan | with forced calmness | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with calmness=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not let in a quote | infinitive · do-support | yourself | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | deceive in a quote | infinitive · passive | this man | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: 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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