The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 67

However, perhaps you won’t believe that, and will just think I have invented it because I am afraid, so let us go on to your country as fast as we can, and when we arrive you can look for my heart, and if you find it you can kill me.’

Who acts: you, I, us, we · What happens: not believe, think, invent, be, let, go on · To what, where: course, us, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, us, we), 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	However	however	ADV	_	7 believe	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 believe	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 believe	nsubj
5	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 believe	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 believe	advmod
7	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 believe	mark
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 think	cc
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 think	advmod
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 believe	parataxis
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 invented	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 invented	aux
16	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 think	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 invented	obj
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 afraid	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 afraid	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 afraid	cop
21	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 invented	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 let	advmod
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 think	conj
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 country	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 country	nmod:poss
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 fast	advmod
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 go	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 can	mark
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 can	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fast	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 look	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 look	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 arrive	advmod
39	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 arrive	nsubj
40	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 look	advcl
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 look	nsubj
42	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 look	aux
43	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 believe	parataxis
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 heart	case
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 heart	nmod:poss
46	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 look	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 kill	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 kill	cc
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 find	mark
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 find	nsubj
51	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 kill	advcl
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 find	obj
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 kill	nsubj
54	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 kill	aux
55	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 look	conj
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 kill	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 believe	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not believe	future	you		however, perhaps property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	future				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	invent	present · perfect	I	course		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
4	is	present	I		afraid property	tree rules
5	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
6	go on	infinitive	us not said here		to your country; fast property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	arrive	present	we			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	look	can	you		for my heart	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for heart=Theme
9	find a condition, not said to happen	present	you	course		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
10	kill	can	you	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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