The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 46

The people held their breath, for they thought: 'Surely the boy is bewitched and throws away his life, for the crocodiles will eat him!'

Who acts: people, crocodiles · What happens: hold, think, bewitch, throw away, eat · To what, where: breath, boy, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, crocodiles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 breath	nmod:poss
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 held	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 bewitched	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 bewitched	punct
12	Surely	surely	ADV	_	16 bewitched	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bewitched	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bewitched	aux:pass
16	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 eat	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 throws	cc
18	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bewitched	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 throws	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 life	nmod:poss
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throws	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 eat	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 crocodiles	det
25	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	aux
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	ccomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eat	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the people	people's breath		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	people			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	bewitch	present · passive		the boy	surely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	throw away	present		boy's life	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
5	eat	future	the crocodiles	boy		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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