The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 36

Peter sat trembling on the tree dreading lest his dogs had never heard, or else that, having heard, they had refused to come.

Who acts: Peter, dogs · What happens: sit, tremble, dread, not hear, have, hear · To what, where: that, tree, dogs

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, dogs), 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trembling	obl
7	dreading	dread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 trembling	conj
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	13 heard	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dogs	nmod:poss
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 heard	advmod
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dreading	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 that	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 that	cc
16	else	else	ADV	_	17 that	advmod
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 having	punct
19	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 having	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 refused	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 refused	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 refused	aux
24	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sat	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 refused	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	Peter	that		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tremble	gerund	Peter not said here		the tree	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location
3	dread	gerund	Peter not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	not hear	past · perfect · passive		master's dogs		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	have	gerund	Peter not said here			tree rules
6	hear	participle	Peter not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
7	refuse	past · perfect	dogs = dog			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	not come	to-infinitive	dogs = dog not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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