Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 33

But the truth was, she was very much afraid lest Falada should speak, and tell all she had done to the princess.

Who acts: truth, Falada, bride · What happens: be, speak, tell, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth, Falada, bride), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 afraid	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 afraid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 afraid	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 afraid	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 afraid	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 afraid	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 afraid	advmod
10	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	14 speak	mark
12	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 speak	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 speak	aux
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 afraid	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 speak	conj
18	all	all	ADV	_	21 done	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tell	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 princess	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 done	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the truth	afraid property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	should	Falada		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Falada not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	past · perfect	bride	to the princess; all property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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