The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 127
‘Well, I advise you to be careful,’ said the Governor, ‘for he may be with you before you are at all aware.’
Who acts: I, Governor, you · What happens: advise, be, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Governor, you), 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 | _ | 5 advise | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 advise | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 advise | nsubj |
| 5 | advise | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 advise | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 careful | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 careful | cop |
| 9 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 advise | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 advise | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 advise | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Governor | det |
| 14 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 aware | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 aware | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 you | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 you | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 you | cop |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 aware | obl |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 28 aware | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 aware | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 aware | cop |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 aware | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 aware | det |
| 28 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | present | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Governor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | may | Governor | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | you | aware 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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