The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 36
'Oh, don't be afraid; you are still alive, and perhaps, after all, you may be sorry for it.
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, be
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. 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 | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 afraid | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 afraid | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 afraid | cop |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 alive | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 alive | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 alive | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 alive | advmod |
| 12 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 afraid | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sorry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sorry | cc |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 23 sorry | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 perhaps | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sorry | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 all | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 sorry | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sorry | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sorry | cop |
| 23 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 afraid | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sorry | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | is | present | you | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | may | you | after all | for giantess; perhaps, sorry property | tree rules |
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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