The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 66

‘I can’t stand this, I must be there too; I’ll take care they shan’t catch me.’

Who acts: I, sounds · What happens: not stand, be, take, not catch · To what, where: this, care, 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 (I, sounds), 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 stand	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stand	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stand	advmod
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 stand	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 there	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 there	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 there	cop
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stand	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 there	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
15	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stand	conj
17	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 catch	nsubj
19	sha	sha	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 catch	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 catch	advmod
21	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 catch	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not stand	can	I	this		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	must	I		there property	tree rules
3	take	future	I	care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	not catch		sounds = sound	me		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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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