The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 76
“But I’m afraid to trust myself to you either.”
Who acts: fox · What happens: be, trust · To what, where: fox, you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 ’m | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ’m | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ’m | nsubj |
| 4 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ’m | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trust | mark |
| 7 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | xcomp |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 trust | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 trust | obl |
| 11 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 trust | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’m | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the fox = fox | afraid property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trust in a quote | to-infinitive | the fox = fox not said here | the fox = fox | you | either property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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