The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 112

'Beware lest you fall asleep, and let slip the chance of getting home again'; for while the lads were sleeping sweet music reached his ears, and he slept also.

Who acts: you, chance, lads, Ian · What happens: beware, fall, let, slip, get, sleep · To what, where: chance, sweet music, ears

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chance, lads, Ian), 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	_	2 Beware	punct
2	Beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	5 fall	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fall	nsubj
5	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Beware	advcl
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fall	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Beware	conj
10	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chance	det
12	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slip	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 getting	mark
14	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 chance	acl
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 getting	advmod
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 getting	advmod
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 again	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 reached	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 sleeping	mark
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 sleeping	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lads	det
22	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sleeping	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sleeping	aux
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 reached	advcl
25	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 music	amod
26	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sleeping	obj
27	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Beware	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ears	nmod:poss
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 reached	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 slept	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 slept	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 slept	nsubj
33	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Beware	parataxis
34	also	also	ADV	_	33 slept	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Beware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beware	imperative	you not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fall	present	you			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
4	slip	infinitive	you not said here	the chance			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
5	get	gerund	the chance not said here		again	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	sleep	past · progressive	the lads	sweet music			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme
7	reach	past	you not said here	Ian's ears			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
8	sleep	past	Ian				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/5/112/