The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 7
“Just keep quite quiet, for before the sun rises you will be a dead man.”
Who acts: sun, you · What happens: keep, rise, be · To what, where: dead man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, you), 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 | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 quiet | advmod |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rises | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 rises | case |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 rises | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rises | nsubj |
| 11 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 man | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 man | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rises | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | rise in a quote | present | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | you | a dead man | tree rules |
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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