The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 45
Don’t be frightened; they shall not come home again.’
Who acts: you, hunter · What happens: do, not frighten, not come
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hunter), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 frightened | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Do | advcl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Do | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not frighten | infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | not come | shall | hunter | again | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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