The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 47

I shall lock my door fast for fear of those wild huntsmen; so, to make sure of my knowing you, knock at the door and say, “My sister dear, open; I’m here.”

Who acts: I, my · What happens: lock, make, know, knock, say, be · To what, where: door, you, wild huntsmen · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lock	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lock	aux
3	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 door	nmod:poss
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lock	obj
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 lock	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fear	case
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lock	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 huntsmen	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 huntsmen	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 huntsmen	amod
12	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fear	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 make	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lock	conj
18	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 make	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 knowing	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 knowing	nsubj
21	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sure	obl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 knowing	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knock	punct
24	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 make	parataxis
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knock	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 knock	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dear	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 dear	punct
32	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sister	nmod:poss
33	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dear	nsubj
34	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 say	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 open	punct
36	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dear	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 ’m	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 ’m	nsubj
39	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lock	conj
40	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 ’m	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lock	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lock	shall	I	my door		for fear of that wild huntsmen; fast property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	I not said here			sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	know	gerund	my	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	knock	infinitive				at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
5	say speech: assert	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be in a quote	present	I		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fear			that wild huntsmen			nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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