The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 63
‘Oh my beloved,’ implored Hyacinthia, ‘please don’t go; for I am frightened and fear some evil.’
What happens: implore, not go, frighten, fear · To what, where: Hyacinthia, I, evil
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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 beloved | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 beloved | discourse |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 4 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 implored | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beloved | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 beloved | punct |
| 7 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 implored | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 14 go | discourse |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 go | advmod |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 implored | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 frightened | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 frightened | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 frightened | aux:pass |
| 19 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 implored | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fear | cc |
| 21 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 frightened | conj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 evil | det |
| 23 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fear | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 implored | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implore | past | Hyacinthia | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hyacinthia=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not go | infinitive · do-support | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | frighten | present · passive | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | fear | infinitive | some evil | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus |
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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