The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 52
‘Don’t be frightened; I will go and see if I can find out something.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not frighten, go, see, find out · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 frightened | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 go | advcl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | ccomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 find | compound:prt |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not frighten | infinitive · passive · do-support | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | find out a condition, not said to happen | can | I | something | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
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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