The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 81
You need not be afraid of taking service with me, for there is no danger in it if you only know how to obey.’
Who acts: You, danger · What happens: not be, take, be, know, obey · To what, where: service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, danger), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 taking | mark |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 afraid | advcl |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 taking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 is | case |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 danger | det |
| 16 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 danger | nmod |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 know | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 is | advcl |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 obey | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 obey | mark |
| 25 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 know | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | You | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | You not said here | service | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme | |||
| 3 | be | present | no danger in service | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | obey | to-infinitive | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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