The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 87
I will send for him, but prepare yourself not to be alarmed at his extraordinary figure.”
Who acts: I, danger · What happens: send, prepare, not alarm, figure · To what, where: yourself, extraordinary figure
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, danger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 send | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prepare | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 prepare | cc |
| 8 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | conj |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 prepare | obj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 alarmed | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 alarmed | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 13 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 prepare | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 figure | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 figure | nmod:poss |
| 16 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 figure | amod |
| 17 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 alarmed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | I | for danger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prepare | infinitive | I not said here | yourself | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not alarm | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | danger's extraordinary figure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 4 | figure | danger | nom figure «communication 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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