The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 23
'Fear nothing; I will soon catch her for you.'
Who acts: I · What happens: catch · To what, where: roe
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | compound |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 catch | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 catch | aux |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 catch | advmod |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | future | I | roe | for you; soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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