The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 8
“Now you must go as fast as you can, or, if not, I shall lose the dog as well as the bear.”
Who acts: you, boy · What happens: go, lose · To what, where: dog
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 go | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 can | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 can | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fast | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 lose | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 or | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 not | mark |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 lose | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 not | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 lose | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lose | aux |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lose | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 26 bear | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bear | det |
| 26 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lose | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | must | you | now | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose in a quote | shall | the boy = boy | the dog | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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