The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 7
When His angel is your guide, Little Lasse, Lasse, Then no harm can e’er betide, Even on the other side Where the wild beasts wander.
Who acts: angel, harm, wild beasts · What happens: be, e'er, betide, wander · To what, where: guide, other side
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, harm, wild beasts), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 guide | advmod |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 angel | nmod:poss |
| 3 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guide | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 guide | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 guide | nmod:poss |
| 6 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lasse | punct |
| 8 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Lasse | amod |
| 9 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 guide | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lasse | punct |
| 11 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lasse | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 e’er | punct |
| 13 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 e’er | advmod |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 harm | det |
| 15 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 e’er | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 e’er | aux |
| 17 | e’er | e'er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 guide | parataxis |
| 18 | betide | betide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 e’er | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 side | punct |
| 20 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 24 side | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 betide | obl |
| 25 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 wander | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 beasts | det |
| 27 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beasts | amod |
| 28 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 wander | nsubj |
| 29 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 side | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 guide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Lasse's angel | your guide | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | e'er | can | no harm | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | betide | infinitive | no harm not said here | the other side | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wander | present | the wild beasts | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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