The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 116

It was in the hottest part of summer that they began their journey, so hot that they could not travel at all in the middle of the day, and they were afraid to do it by night lest they might lose their way or fall into the hands of robbers.

Who acts: gun, Niels · What happens: be, begin, not travel, do, lose, fall · To what, where: hottest part, all, gun, way, hands

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gun, Niels), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 part	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 part	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 part	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 part	det
5	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 summer	case
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 began	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 part	acl:relcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 journey	nmod:poss
13	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hot	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 hot	advmod
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 began	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 travel	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 travel	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 travel	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 travel	advmod
21	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hot	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 travel	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 middle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 middle	det
26	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 travel	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 day	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 middle	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 afraid	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 afraid	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 afraid	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 afraid	cop
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 began	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 lose	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 do	obj
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 night	case
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 do	obl
40	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	43 lose	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 lose	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 lose	aux
43	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 afraid	ccomp
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 way	nmod:poss
45	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lose	obj
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 fall	cc
47	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 lose	conj
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 hands	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 hands	det
50	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 fall	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 robbers	case
52	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 hands	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 part	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	gun		the hottest part	summer		tree rules
2	begin	past	Niels	the hottest part				tree rules
3	not travel	could	Niels		all		in the middle of the day	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory
4	is	past	Niels				afraid property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	Niels not said here	gun		night		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	lose	might	Niels	Niels's way				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
7	fall	infinitive	Niels not said here				into the hands of robbers result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
8	journey		Niels					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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