The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 21

Count Piro was frightened when he heard these words, as he thought that perhaps the fox might have power to take away the castle, and leave him as poor as when he had nothing to eat but the pears off his tree.

Who acts: you, Piro, fox, power · What happens: count, frighten, hear, think, have, take away · To what, where: Piro, words, power, castle, fox, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Piro, fox, power), 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	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Piro	Piro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Count	ccomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	advcl
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 words	det
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 thought	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 have	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fox	det
17	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
20	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	xcomp
23	away	away	ADP	_	22 take	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 leave	cc
28	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Count	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 leave	obj
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 poor	advmod
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 leave	xcomp
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 had	mark
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 had	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 poor	advcl
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 had	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 eat	mark
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 nothing	acl
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 pears	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 pears	det
41	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 nothing	conj
42	off	off	ADP	_	44 tree	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 tree	nmod:poss
44	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nothing	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	frighten	past · passive		Piro		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	hear	past	Piro	this words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	Piro			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	might	the fox	power	perhaps property	tree rules
6	take away	to-infinitive	power not said here	the castle		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
7	leave	infinitive		fox	poor property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	have	past	fox	nothing	off fox's tree	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
9	eat	to-infinitive	fox not said here	nothing not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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