The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 88

'Truly, dear mother, I am,' replied Pinkel, rowing faster than ever, for he was half afraid that the witch might come after him.

Who acts: dear mother, Pinkel, witch · What happens: reply, row, be, come

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear mother, Pinkel, witch), 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	_	5 mother	punct
2	Truly	truly	ADV	_	4 dear	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Truly	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 am	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 am	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mother	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rowing	punct
14	rowing	row	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 replied	advcl
15	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 rowing	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 ever	case
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 faster	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 afraid	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 afraid	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 afraid	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 afraid	cop
22	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 afraid	advmod
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 replied	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 witch	det
26	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 afraid	ccomp
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	dear mother			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	row	gerund	dear mother not said here		fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Pinkel		afraid, half property	tree rules
4	come	might	the witch	after Pinkel		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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