The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 40
“Be sure that he does not run away,” chuckled he.
Who acts: you, ball · What happens: be, not run away, chuckle · To what, where: ball · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ball), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 run | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 run | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 run | advmod |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 12 | chuckled | chuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 chuckled | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not run away in a quote | present · do-support | ball | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chuckle | past | you not said here | ball | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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