More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 41

Poor Scrapefoot was so frightened, and he thought every bone in his body must be broken.

Who acts: Poor Scrapefoot, Scrapefoot · What happens: be, think, break · To what, where: bone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Scrapefoot, Scrapefoot), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Scrapefoot	amod
2	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	conj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 bone	det
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 broken	nsubj:pass
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 body	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bone	nmod
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 broken	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 broken	aux:pass
17	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thought	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Poor Scrapefoot		frightened property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Scrapefoot			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	break	must · passive		every bone in Scrapefoot's body		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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