The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 123

We’ll walk on quietly, as if we suspected nothing, and when we are passing I’ll give you a shove.

Who acts: We · What happens: walk, suspect, pass, give · To what, where: nothing, I, shove, you

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 walk	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 quietly	case
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 suspected	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 suspected	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 suspected	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 suspected	nsubj
10	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	advcl
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 suspected	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 passing	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 passing	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 passing	aux
17	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 give	advcl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 passing	obj
19	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shove	det
23	shove	shove	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	walk	future	We			quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	suspect	past	we	nothing			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nothing=Attribute
3	pass	present · progressive	we	I			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory
4	give	future	We not said here	a shove	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient shove=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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