The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 3
Oh, sir, do not linger here, or he will eat you too.’
Who acts: you, man · What happens: not linger, eat · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 linger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oh | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 linger | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 linger | advmod |
| 7 | linger | linger | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 linger | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | aux |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 linger | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 eat | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 linger | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 linger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not linger | imperative · do-support | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | future | man | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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