The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 98

But all along the road there are huge fires, and I dread lest you should stop and warm yourself at them.’

Who acts: huge fires, I, you · What happens: be, dread, stop, warm · To what, where: road, yourself

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 (huge fires, I, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 are	cc
2	all	all	ADV	_	5 road	advmod
3	along	along	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 are	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 are	expl
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dread	advcl
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fires	amod
9	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 are	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dread	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dread	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 dread	nsubj
13	dread	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	17 stop	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 stop	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stop	aux
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dread	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 warm	cc
19	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stop	conj
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 warm	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 warm	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 dread	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 dread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	huge fires		the road; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Location
2	dread	present	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	stop	should	you				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	warm	infinitive	you not said here	yourself		at fires = fire	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient

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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