The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 68

Hasten, lest you should be too late!'

Who acts: you · What happens: hasten, be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. 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	Hasten	hasten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 late	punct
3	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	8 late	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 late	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 late	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 late	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 late	advmod
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hasten	parataxis
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Hasten	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Hasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hasten	imperative	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	should	you					late 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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