The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 55

“I leave you,” said my friend, “to consider what measures you will take; and, to escape suspicion, I must immediately return, as secretly as I came.”

Who acts: friend, you · What happens: leave, say, consider, measure, take, escape · To what, where: you, suspicion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, 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	_	3 leave	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 “	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 consider	mark
13	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 “	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 measures	nsubj
15	measures	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 consider	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 measures	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 escape	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 escape	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 escape	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 escape	mark
23	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 consider	conj
24	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 escape	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 return	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 return	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 return	aux
28	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	29 return	advmod
29	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 escape	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 secretly	punct
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 secretly	advmod
32	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	29 return	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 secretly	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	present	my friend = friend	you		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	my friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	consider in a quote	to-infinitive	my friend not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	measure in a quote	present				tree rules
5	take in a quote	future	you			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	escape in a quote	to-infinitive	my friend not said here	suspicion		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme suspicion=Initial_Location
7	return in a quote	must	my friend = friend		immediately, secretly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come in a quote	past	my friend = friend			vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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