The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 70

Be quick! save yourself from this whirlpool of destruction, for the demons and peris. who guard me will wake and seize you.’

Who acts: you, demons, destruction · What happens: be, save, guard, wake, seize, whirlpool · To what, where: yourself, whirlpool, me, you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, demons, destruction), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 quick	cop
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 save	advcl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 quick	punct
4	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 save	iobj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 whirlpool	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 whirlpool	det
8	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 destruction	case
10	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whirlpool	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 demons	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 demons	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 demons	det
14	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wake	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 peris	cc
16	peris	peri	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 demons	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 demons	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 guard	nsubj
19	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 demons	acl:relcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 guard	obj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 wake	aux
22	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 save	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seize	cc
24	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wake	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 seize	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	you not said here				quick property	tree rules
2	save	imperative	you not said here		yourself	this whirlpool of destruction		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme from whirlpool=Source
3	guard	present	the demons and peris		me			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	wake	future	the demons and peris					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	seize	infinitive	the demons and peris not said here	you				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	whirlpool		destruction					nom whirlpool «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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