The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 29
And she begged, ‘Ah! brother, don’t drink yet, or you’ll become a roe and run away from me.’
Who acts: roe, you · What happens: beg, not drink, become, run away · To what, where: brother, roe
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 (roe, 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 | _ | 3 begged | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brother | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 brother | punct |
| 6 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 brother | discourse |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ah | punct |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drink | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 drink | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 drink | advmod |
| 12 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | conj |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 drink | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 become | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 become | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 become | nsubj |
| 17 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | aux |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 drink | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 roe | det |
| 20 | roe | roe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 become | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 run | cc |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 run | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 run | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | roe | brother | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not drink | infinitive · do-support | roe not said here | yet | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | become | future | you | a roe | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run away | present | you not said here | from me; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from i=Trajectory |
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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