The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 98
I did not then know in what manner to act, for if I was seen I would surely lose my life, as everybody had a look-out at that time, and because there was no person bold enough to come in on me.
Who acts: I, everybody, person · What happens: not know, act, see, lose, have, be · To what, where: I, life, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, everybody, person), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 know | obj |
| 8 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 act | mark |
| 10 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 what | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 know | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 lose | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 lose | aux |
| 19 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 20 lose | advmod |
| 20 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seen | ccomp |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lose | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 had | mark |
| 25 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 look | det |
| 28 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 out | punct |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 look | compound |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 bold | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 bold | cc |
| 36 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 was | mark |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 was | expl |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 bold | cop |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 person | det |
| 40 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bold | nsubj |
| 41 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 know | conj |
| 42 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 41 bold | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 come | mark |
| 44 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 bold | xcomp |
| 45 | in | in | ADV | _ | 44 come | advmod |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 me | case |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 come | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | I | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | act | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lose | would | I | my life | surely property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | have | past | everybody | a look | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | |||
| 6 | is | past | no person | bold, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come in | to-infinitive | no person not said here | on me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Location |
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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