The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 69
Then the Lake said, ‘You do well to be afraid, for it is at your peril that you are come hither.
Who acts: Lake, You · What happens: say, be, come · To what, where: peril · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lake, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lake | det |
| 3 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 afraid | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 12 afraid | mark |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | aux |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 afraid | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 afraid | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 afraid | cop |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 peril | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 peril | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 peril | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 peril | cop |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 peril | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 peril | nmod:poss |
| 19 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 afraid | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 peril | acl |
| 24 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Lake | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present · do-support | You | afraid, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | lake | for your peril | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | present | you | your peril not said here | hither property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peril=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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