The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 100
But she got no answer, for the maiden was afraid of bringing trouble on her little friends.
Who acts: woman, maiden · What happens: get, be, bring · To what, where: answer, trouble
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, maiden), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 got | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 answer | det |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 afraid | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 afraid | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 afraid | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 afraid | cop |
| 11 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | conj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 bringing | mark |
| 13 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 afraid | advcl |
| 14 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bringing | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 friends | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friends | amod |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bringing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | woman | no answer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the maiden | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | the maiden not said here | trouble | on woman's little friends | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme on friend=Destination |
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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