The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 61
‘Beware, and never stand still,’ called the brown horse, and more he could not say, for the water was choking him.
Who acts: you, Woe, water · What happens: beware, not stand, call, not say, choke · To what, where: brown horse, Woe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Woe, water), 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 Beware | punct |
| 2 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stand | cc |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 stand | advmod |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Beware | conj |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 stand | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Beware | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 12 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horse | amod |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 say | cc |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 say | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 say | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 say | advmod |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Beware | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 choking | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 choking | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 choking | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 choking | aux |
| 26 | choking | choke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 say | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 choking | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not stand | infinitive | you not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the brown horse | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | could | Woe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | choke | past · progressive | the water | Woe | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=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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