The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 79

And the ogre sat down in bewilderment, for he dared not eat the children of people who had done him no wrong, or a heavy punishment would befall him.

Who acts: ogre, Motikatika, people, heavy punishment · What happens: sit down, eat, do, befall · To what, where: bewilderment, children, Motikatika

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 (ogre, Motikatika, people, heavy punishment), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ogre	det
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 bewilderment	case
7	bewilderment	bewilderment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 eat	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
11	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 dared	advmod
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 people	case
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 children	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 done	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 people	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	obj
22	no	no	ADV	_	23 wrong	advmod
23	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 done	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 befall	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 befall	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 punishment	det
27	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 punishment	amod
28	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 befall	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 befall	aux
30	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eat	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 befall	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the ogre		bewilderment		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bewilderment=Location
2	eat	past	Motikatika	the children of people			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	do	past · perfect	people	Motikatika		wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
4	befall	would	a heavy punishment	Motikatika			tree rules

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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