The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 129
But do not be afraid; trust to the ball, and you will be quite safe!”
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. 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 | _ | 5 afraid | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 trust | punct |
| 7 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 afraid | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ball | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ball | det |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trust | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 safe | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 safe | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 safe | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 safe | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 safe | cop |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 safe | advmod |
| 17 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 afraid | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative · do-support | you not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | future | you | safe property | 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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