The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 60
But fear nothing, for the hour of the emperor has struck.’
What happens: fear, strike · To what, where: nothing, hour
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 2 fear | cc |
| 2 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 fear | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 emperor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 emperor | det |
| 10 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hour | nmod |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | aux |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fear | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | nothing | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | strike | present · perfect · passive | the hour of the emperor | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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