The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 69

Your choice once made, be very careful never to leave your bride for an instant, and remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.’

Who acts: choice, danger, we · What happens: make, be, not leave, remember, fear, not be · To what, where: bride, danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choice, danger, we), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 choice	nmod:poss
2	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 careful	punct
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 careful	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 careful	advmod
8	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 leave	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 leave	mark
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 careful	advcl
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bride	nmod:poss
13	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leave	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 instant	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 instant	det
16	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remember	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 remember	cc
19	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 danger	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 danger	det
22	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 danger	nsubj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 most	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 most	cop
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 danger	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	28 feared	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 feared	aux:pass
28	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 danger	acl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 danger	cop
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 danger	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 danger	det
32	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remember	ccomp
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 afraid	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 afraid	cop
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 afraid	advmod
36	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 danger	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	36 afraid	case
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Your choice		once property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	is	infinitive	Your choice not said here		careful property	tree rules
3	not leave	to-infinitive	Your choice not said here	your bride	for a instant	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bride=Theme for instant=Recipient
4	remember	infinitive				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	the danger		most property	tree rules
6	fear	to-infinitive · passive	the danger not said here	the danger not said here		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»
7	not is a	present	the danger	the danger		tree rules
8	is	present	we		afraid property	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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