The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 46
But beware lest you deceive me, and do not miss a single one.
Who acts: you · What happens: beware, deceive, not miss · To what, where: me, single one
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 beware | cc |
| 2 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 5 deceive | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 deceive | nsubj |
| 5 | deceive | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 beware | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 deceive | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 miss | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 miss | cc |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 miss | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 miss | advmod |
| 11 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 beware | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 miss | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | deceive | present | you | me | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not miss | infinitive · do-support | a single one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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