More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 60
I did fear, to see them run so fast, that they would run beyond the market.
Who acts: I, Cheeses · What happens: do, see, run · To what, where: fear, Cheeses, market
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cheeses), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 run | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 fast | advmod |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 run | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 run | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 run | conj |
| 16 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 18 market | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 market | det |
| 18 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | fear | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Cheeses = cheese | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | run | infinitive | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | would | Cheeses = cheese | the market | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond market=Trajectory |
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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