The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 210
Do please keep on barking for fear the soles should come and eat us up!’
Who acts: you, soles · What happens: keep, bark, come, eat up · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, soles), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 2 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 keep | discourse |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 barking | mark |
| 5 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 come | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fear | case |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barking | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soles | det |
| 9 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 eat | compound:prt |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative · do-support | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bark | gerund | the soles not said here | for fear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for fear=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | should | the soles | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat up | infinitive | the soles not said here | us | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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