The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 12

‘Don’t cry, dear mother; we’ll manage to escape somehow, and will fly for our lives.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: not cry, manage, escape, fly · To what, where: dear mother

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. 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), 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	_	4 cry	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cry	advmod
4	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mother	amod
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 manage	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 manage	nsubj
10	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 manage	aux
11	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 escape	mark
13	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 manage	xcomp
14	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	13 escape	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fly	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fly	cc
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fly	aux
18	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 manage	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 lives	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lives	nmod:poss
21	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fly	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	imperative · do-support	you not said here	dear mother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	manage	future	we			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	escape	to-infinitive	we not said here		somehow property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fly	future	we not said here		for our lives	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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