The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 15
'Do not be afraid; they are quite honestly come by,' answered the youth. '
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, come by, answer · To what, where: clothes, youth
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux:pass |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 honestly | advmod |
| 10 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 afraid | ccomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative · do-support | you not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come by | present · passive | clothes | honestly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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