The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 122
Run after her, and she is sure to fly from you; stay still, and she is sure to come.”
Who acts: you, Last · What happens: run, be, fly, stay, come
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Last), 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 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 her | case |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Run | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sure | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | cop |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Run | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fly | mark |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 fly | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stay | punct |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | conj |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 stay | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sure | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sure | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sure | cop |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Run | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 come | mark |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sure | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | after Last | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Last | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | to-infinitive | Last not said here | from you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from you=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | you not said here | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | Last | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | Last not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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