The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 14

When she thought of this the queen’s heart sank within her, for he was the light of her eyes and how was she to send him forth to the unknown dangers that beset a pilgrim?

Who acts: birthday, heart, unknown dangers · What happens: think, sink, be, beset · To what, where: pilgrim

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birthday, heart, unknown dangers), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 thought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thought	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 queen	det
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heart	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 queen	case
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sank	nsubj
10	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
11	within	within	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sank	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 light	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 light	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 light	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 light	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sank	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 light	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 send	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 send	advmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 send	cop
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 send	nsubj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 send	mark
27	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sank	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 send	obj
29	forth	forth	ADV	_	27 send	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 dangers	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dangers	det
32	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dangers	amod
33	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 send	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 beset	nsubj
35	beset	beset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 dangers	acl:relcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pilgrim	det
37	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 beset	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	birthday		of this	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	the queen's heart		within birthday	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	heart		for the light; of birthday's eyes	tree rules
4	is	past	birthday		to the unknown dangers; forth, send property	tree rules
5	beset	present	the unknown dangers	a pilgrim		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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