The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 100
‘I am so afraid that the whales would swallow us up, and the big dogs bite us.
Who acts: I, whales, big dogs · What happens: be, swallow up, bite · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, whales, big dogs), 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 | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 swallow | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 whales | det |
| 8 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swallow | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 swallow | aux |
| 10 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | advcl |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 swallow | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 swallow | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bite | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bite | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dogs | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dogs | amod |
| 17 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bite | nsubj |
| 18 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | conj |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bite | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swallow up | would | the whales | us | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bite | present | the big dogs | us | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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