The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 15

We must fly now as quickly as we can, for there is no other way of escape.’

Who acts: We, other way · What happens: fly, be

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, other way), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fly	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fly	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 quickly	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 can	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 can	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 quickly	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 is	case
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	advcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 way	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 escape	case
18	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 way	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fly	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	must	We				now	quickly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	no other way of escape			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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