The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 46
"Be not afraid, brothers, father and mother have left us here, but I will lead you home again, only follow me."
Who acts: you, brothers, Thumb · What happens: not be, leave, lead, follow · To what, where: us, you, Thumb · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brothers, Thumb), 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 | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brothers | punct |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 left | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brothers | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mother | cc |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | conj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 left | iobj |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 left | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lead | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 lead | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 lead | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lead | aux |
| 19 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 lead | obj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 lead | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 lead | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 follow | punct |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 follow | advmod |
| 25 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lead | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 follow | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | present · perfect | brothers and father and mother | us | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 3 | lead in a quote | future | Thumb | you | again | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||
| 4 | follow in a quote | infinitive | Thumb not said here | Thumb | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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