The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 68
He has been expecting you for ages, but you need have no fear if you will only follow my advice.
Who acts: father, you · What happens: expect, need, have, follow · To what, where: you, fear, advice
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (father, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 expecting | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 expecting | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 expecting | aux |
| 4 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 expecting | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ages | case |
| 7 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 expecting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 need | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 need | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 need | nsubj |
| 11 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 expecting | parataxis |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 need | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 fear | det |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 follow | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 follow | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 follow | aux |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 follow | advmod |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | advcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 advice | nmod:poss |
| 21 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 follow | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expecting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present · perfect · progressive | father | you | for ages | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | have | present | you not said here | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | follow a condition, not said to happen | future | you | my advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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