The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 29
As he stood hesitating, a voice from the rock cried to him: ‘Step in without fear, no harm shall befall you.’
Who acts: tailor, voice, Step · What happens: stand, hesitate, cry, befall · To what, where: tailor, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, voice, Step), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | advcl |
| 4 | hesitating | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Step | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Step | punct |
| 16 | Step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 befall | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 fear | case |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 in | fixed |
| 19 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Step | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 befall | punct |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 harm | det |
| 22 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 befall | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 befall | aux |
| 24 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 befall | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 befall | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 befall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | tailor | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hesitate | gerund | tailor not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | a voice from the rock | tailor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | befall | shall | Step in fear | you | tree rules |
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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