The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 24

And she cried, ‘Oh! brother, pray don’t drink here either, or you’ll be turned into a wolf and eat me up.’

Who acts: wolf · What happens: cry, pray, not drink, turn, eat up · To what, where: brother, you, wolf, me

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf), 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	_	3 cried	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brother	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 brother	punct
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 brother	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Oh	punct
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pray	punct
10	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cried	conj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 drink	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 drink	advmod
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pray	ccomp
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 drink	advmod
15	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 drink	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turned	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 turned	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 turned	nsubj
19	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 turned	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 turned	aux:pass
21	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cried	parataxis
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 wolf	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wolf	det
24	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 eat	cc
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 turned	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 eat	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 eat	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	wolf	brother			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	infinitive	wolf not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	not drink	infinitive · do-support	wolf not said here		here	either property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	future · passive		you	a wolf		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into wolf=Trajectory
5	eat up	infinitive		me			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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