The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 96

And as I am not feeling very well, and am afraid to start while the sun is so high lest I should get a sunstroke, if you like, I will come a little nearer and tell you his story.’

Who acts: I, feeling, you · What happens: not feel, be, start, get, like, come · To what, where: sun, sunstroke, story, you · 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 (I, feeling, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 feeling	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 feeling	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 feeling	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feeling	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 feeling	advmod
6	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 high	csubj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 feeling	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 afraid	cc
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feeling	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 start	mark
14	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 afraid	xcomp
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 sun	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 start	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 high	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 high	advmod
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	24 get	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 high	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sunstroke	det
26	sunstroke	sunstroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 like	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
30	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 come	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 come	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 get	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 little	det
36	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 nearer	advmod
37	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 come	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 tell	cc
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 get	conj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 tell	iobj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 story	nmod:poss
42	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tell	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 high	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not feel	present · progressive	I			well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	I not said here			afraid property	tree rules
3	start	to-infinitive	I not said here	the sun			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Eventuality
4	is	present	feeling			high property	tree rules
5	get	should	I	a sunstroke			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunstroke=Stimulus
6	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	come	future	I			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here	donkey's story	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic

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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