The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 9
'Well, so many of the guests have brought their dogs and mules with them, that I fear it may hardly be safe for you to go amongst them.
Who acts: many, I, matter, you · What happens: bring, fear, be, go · To what, where: dogs · 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 (many, I, matter, 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 | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 brought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 guests | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guests | det |
| 8 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 many | nmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brought | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mules | cc |
| 14 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dogs | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mules | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fear | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 fear | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fear | nsubj |
| 20 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 safe | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 safe | aux |
| 23 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 25 safe | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 safe | cop |
| 25 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fear | ccomp |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 go | nsubj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 safe | advcl |
| 30 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 go | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect | many of the guests | guests's dogs and mules with mules | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | may | matter | hardly, safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | you | amongst mules = mule | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme amongst they=Location |
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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