The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 212

Perhaps we may be caught by the thorns, or perhaps we may have to run before the Nunda, and the cloth might bind our legs, and cause us to fall before it.’

Who acts: thorns, we, cloth, us · What happens: catch, have, run, bind, cause, fall · To what, where: we, Nunda, legs, us, cloth

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thorns, we, cloth, us), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 caught	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 thorns	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thorns	det
8	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caught	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 caught	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 run	mark
16	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 Nunda	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Nunda	det
19	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 run	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bind	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bind	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cloth	det
23	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bind	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 bind	aux
25	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	parataxis
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 legs	nmod:poss
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bind	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cause	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cause	cc
30	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 bind	conj
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 cause	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 fall	mark
33	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 cause	xcomp
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fall	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	may · passive	the thorns	we		perhaps property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	have	may	we			perhaps property	tree rules
3	run	to-infinitive	we not said here		the Nunda		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before nunda=Trajectory
4	bind	might	the cloth	our legs			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
5	cause	infinitive	the cloth not said here	us			tree rules
6	fall	to-infinitive	us not said here		cloth		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before it=Location

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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