The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 89
Come, let us be quick, for fear the water should get cold.’
Who acts: you, us, water · What happens: come, let, be, get · To what, where: us
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 (you, us, water), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quick | cop |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 let | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | advcl |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 get | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | us not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | should | the water | for fear; cold property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for fear=Source |
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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