The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 138

'We had better hurry off now lest somebody else should come, and we might not know what to do'; and, followed by Michael, he hastily left the castle.

Who acts: We, somebody, Martin · What happens: have, hurry off, come, not know, do, follow · To what, where: castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, somebody, Martin), 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	_	3 had	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	xcomp
5	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 hurry	compound:prt
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hurry	advmod
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
9	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 come	nsubj
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 somebody	advmod
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurry	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 know	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	parataxis
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 know	ccomp
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 followed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 followed	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 followed	punct
26	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	parataxis
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 Michael	case
28	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 followed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 left	nsubj
31	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	32 left	advmod
32	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 castle	det
34	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We			good property	tree rules
2	hurry off	infinitive	We not said here		now		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	should	somebody				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not know	might	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	follow	participle				by Michael	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by michael=Location
7	leave	past	Martin	the castle		hastily property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=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 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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