The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 85
Therefore he answered cautiously, ‘Do not be angry, dear maiden, if I do not decide immediately on this important matter.
Who acts: foot, I · What happens: answer, not be, not decide
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 angry | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 angry | punct |
| 7 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 angry | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 angry | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 angry | cop |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 maiden | punct |
| 12 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 maiden | amod |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 angry | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 decide | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 decide | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 decide | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 decide | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 decide | advmod |
| 19 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | conj |
| 20 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 19 decide | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 matter | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 matter | det |
| 23 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 matter | amod |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 decide | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | foot | cautiously, therefore property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive · do-support | angry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not decide a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | on this important matter; immediately property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on matter=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 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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