The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 11

‘Look here, old man, we must really kill that sheep lest it run away to the wood again.’

Who acts: you, we, sheep · What happens: look, kill, run away

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, sheep), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Look	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Look	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 kill	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	aux
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 kill	advmod
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Look	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 run	mark
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 run	nsubj
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sheep	nmod
16	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	advcl
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 run	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 run	obl
21	again	again	ADV	_	16 run	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here	here		old man vocative	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	kill	must	we				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	run away	present	sheep lest home		again	to the wood result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wood=Result

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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