The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 77
Do not be afraid, you will reach him, and will prosper.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, not be, reach, prosper · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 afraid | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Do | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reach | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 reach | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 reach | aux |
| 8 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reach | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prosper | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prosper | cc |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 prosper | aux |
| 13 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 reach | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | you not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | future | you | King | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | prosper | future | you not said here | 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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