The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 74

But that she must be careful to cry out a long way off what she had with her, or else he would spring upon her and run her through with his sword.

Who acts: girl, man · What happens: be, cry out, have, spring, run through · To what, where: long way, girl

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 careful	cc
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 careful	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 careful	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 careful	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 careful	cop
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cry	mark
8	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 careful	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 cry	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cry	obl:unmarked
13	off	off	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 way	nmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spring	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 spring	cc
21	else	else	ADV	_	24 spring	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spring	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 spring	aux
24	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cry	conj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spring	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 run	cc
28	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 spring	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 run	obj
30	through	through	ADP	_	28 run	compound:prt
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 sword	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sword	nmod:poss
33	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 run	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	must	girl		careful property	tree rules
2	cry out speech: express	to-infinitive	girl not said here	a long way		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	girl		with giant	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	spring	would	man		upon girl; else property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Trajectory
5	run through	infinitive	man not said here	girl	with man's sword	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product with sword=Material

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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