The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 62

For two days Labakan rode on steadily, fearing lest, after all, Omar might reach the meeting place before him.

Who acts: Labakan, Omar · What happens: ride, fear, reach · To what, where: meeting place

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, Omar), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rode	obl
4	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rode	nsubj
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 steadily	case
7	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	5 rode	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fearing	punct
9	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 rode	advcl
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	9 fearing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lest	punct
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 lest	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reach	punct
15	Omar	Omar	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 reach	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 reach	aux
17	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rode	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
19	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 place	compound
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reach	obj
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reach	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ride	past	Labakan		day	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	fear	gerund	Labakan not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	reach	might	Omar	the meeting place	before Labakan	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=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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