The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 102

“I hope you will be more obedient to his Majesty than you were to me,” she said; and the boy shrank away half-frightened.

Who acts: anger, you, boy · What happens: hope, be, say, shrink away, frighten · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, you, boy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hope	nsubj
3	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 obedient	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 obedient	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 obedient	cop
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 obedient	amod
8	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hope	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Majesty	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Majesty	nmod:poss
11	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 obedient	obl
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 me	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 me	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 me	cop
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 obedient	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hope	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 shrank	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shrank	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shrank	nsubj
25	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hope	parataxis
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 shrank	advmod
27	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	29 frightened	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 half	punct
29	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 shrank	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hope in a quote	present	anger		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	is in a quote	future	you	to king's Majesty; obedient property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	you	to anger	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	anger		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	shrink away	past	the boy	away property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	frighten	participle	the boy not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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