The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 66
Only, beware; for before you reach the castle on the Banka fearful things will happen.”
Who acts: you, castle · What happens: beware, reach, happen
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, castle), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 beware | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 3 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 happen | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 reach | mark |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 reach | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 reach | nsubj |
| 8 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 happen | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 happen | nsubj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 things | det |
| 13 | Banka | Banka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 things | compound |
| 14 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 castle | nmod |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 happen | aux |
| 17 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 beware | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beware | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reach | present | you | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | happen | future | the castle on the Banka fearful things | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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