The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 45
Only, are you not afraid to be left without my protection?
Who acts: you, my · What happens: not be, leave, protect
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 afraid | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 afraid | advmod |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 left | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 afraid | advcl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 protection | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 protection | nmod:poss |
| 12 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | without my protection | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | protect | my | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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