The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 31
That is why I warn you to be careful, lest you should share my fate.’
Who acts: That, I, you, my · What happens: be, warn, share, fate · To what, where: you, fate
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I, you, my), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 warn | nsubj |
| 5 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 warn | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 careful | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 careful | cop |
| 9 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warn | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 share | punct |
| 11 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 14 share | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 share | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 share | aux |
| 14 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 warn | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fate | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 share | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warn | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 warn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | present | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | share | should | you | my fate | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fate | my | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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