The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 93

‘Be quick, lest the sun should set,’ he answered, and began to wriggle along so fast that the girl could hardly follow him.

Who acts: you, sun, girl · What happens: be, set, answer, begin, wriggle, follow · To what, where: sun

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun, girl), 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 quick	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 quick	cop
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct
5	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	9 set	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 set	aux
9	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quick	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 answered	nsubj
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 wriggle	mark
18	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 wriggle	advmod
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 fast	advmod
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 wriggle	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 follow	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girl	det
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 follow	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 follow	aux
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	27 follow	advmod
27	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wriggle	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 follow	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		quick property	tree rules
2	set	should	the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	past	sun			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	sun not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	wriggle	to-infinitive	sun not said here		along, fast property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	follow	could	the girl	sun	hardly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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