The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 67

Sister began to cry, and said, ‘They are certain to kill you, and then I shall be left all alone in the forest and forsaken by everyone.

Who acts: Sister, sounds · What happens: begin, cry, say, be, kill, leave · To what, where: you, I, forest · 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 (Sister, 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	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cry	mark
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 certain	punct
9	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	12 certain	mark
10	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 certain	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 certain	cop
12	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 kill	mark
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 certain	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 kill	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 left	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 left	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 left	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 left	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 left	aux:pass
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 began	parataxis
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 alone	advmod
24	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 left	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 forsaken	cc
29	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 left	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 everyone	case
31	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 forsaken	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Sister					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Sister not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	sounds = sound				certain property	tree rules
5	kill	to-infinitive	sounds = sound not said here	you				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	leave	shall · passive		I	the forest	then	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in forest=Location
7	forsake	participle					by everyone	tree rules

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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