The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 27
“Are you not afraid of robbers?”
Who acts: you · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 robbers | case |
| 7 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 afraid | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | you | of robbers; afraid property | tree rules |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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