The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 110
‘I am so afraid that the buffaloes will butt us, and the great serpent eat us up.
Who acts: I, buffaloes, great serpent · What happens: be, butt, eat up · 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, buffaloes, great serpent), 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 butt | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 buffaloes | det |
| 8 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 butt | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 butt | aux |
| 10 | butt | butt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | ccomp |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 butt | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 eat | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 serpent | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 serpent | amod |
| 16 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | nsubj |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 eat | compound:prt |
| 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 | butt | future | the buffaloes | us | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent we=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | eat up | infinitive | the great serpent | us | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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