The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 121
Go back and fetch it, lest some ill-fortune should befall her, or enter the palace and trust to chance that nothing evil would happen?
Who acts: you, ill fortune, nothing evil · What happens: go back, fetch, befall, enter, happen · To what, where: basket, Dotterine, palace, chance
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ill fortune, nothing evil), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fetch | cc |
| 4 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fetch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 befall | punct |
| 7 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 13 befall | mark |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 fortune | det |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fortune | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ill | punct |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 befall | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 befall | aux |
| 13 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 befall | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 enter | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 enter | cc |
| 17 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enter | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 trust | cc |
| 21 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 chance | mark |
| 23 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enter | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 happen | mark |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 evil | compound |
| 26 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 happen | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 happen | aux |
| 28 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 chance | acl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | imperative | you not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fetch | infinitive | you not said here | basket | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | befall | should | some ill fortune | Dotterine | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enter | infinitive | the palace and trust | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | |||||
| 5 | happen | would | nothing evil | chance not said here | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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