The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 116
‘Grandchild,’ replied she, ‘I fear to put your life in danger, and my own too.’
Who acts: Grandchild, I · What happens: reply, fear, put · To what, where: life, danger
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandchild, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grandchild | punct |
| 2 | Grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grandchild | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grandchild | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fear | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 fear | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fear | nsubj |
| 10 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fear | xcomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 danger | case |
| 16 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 own | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 own | cc |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 own | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Grandchild | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fear | present | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | I not said here | your life | danger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in danger=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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