The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 83
“I would run so quickly that he should not catch you.”
Who acts: bear · What happens: run, not catch · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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 | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 catch | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 catch | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 catch | advmod |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 run | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 catch | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | would | bear | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not catch in a quote | should | bear | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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