The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 73

‘We have still some accounts to settle,’ said he, ‘about what you have been doing here,’ and the poor dragon was too frightened to stir, lest Stan should slay him at one breath and bury him among the flowers in the mountain pastures.

Who acts: We, Stan, you, poor dragon · What happens: have, settle, say, do, be, stir · To what, where: accounts, Father, one breath, Stan, flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Stan, you, poor dragon), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 accounts	advmod
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 accounts	det
6	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 settle	mark
8	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 accounts	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 what	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 doing	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 doing	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 doing	aux
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 what	acl:relcl
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 doing	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 frightened	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dragon	det
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dragon	amod
27	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 frightened	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 frightened	cop
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 frightened	advmod
30	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 what	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 stir	mark
32	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 frightened	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 slay	punct
34	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	37 slay	mark
35	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 slay	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 slay	aux
37	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 slay	obj
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 breath	case
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 breath	nummod
41	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 slay	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bury	cc
43	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 slay	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 bury	obj
45	among	among	ADP	_	47 flowers	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 flowers	det
47	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 bury	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	51 pastures	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 pastures	det
50	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 pastures	compound
51	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 flowers	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	We	some accounts			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Patient
2	settle	to-infinitive	We not said here	some accounts not said here			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Stan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	present · perfect · progressive	you		here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the poor dragon			frightened property	tree rules
6	stir	to-infinitive	the poor dragon not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	slay	should	Stan	Father	one breath		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	bury	infinitive	Stan not said here	Stan	the flowers in the mountain pastures		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme among flower=Destination

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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