The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 88
‘O men, be warned and turn back while there is yet time.
What happens: warn, turn back, be · To what, where: men
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 men | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 men | discourse |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 warned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 warned | aux:pass |
| 6 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 turn | cc |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 warned | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 turn | advmod |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 is | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | advcl |
| 13 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | infinitive · passive | men | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | turn back | infinitive | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | be | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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