The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 49

'And now,' she said, 'I ought not to stay any longer, for my husband will think that I have run away, or that some evil beast has devoured me.'

Who acts: ', I, husband · What happens: say, not stay, think, run away, devour · To what, where: evil beast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (', I, husband), 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	'	'	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stay	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 stay	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 stay	nsubj
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stay	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 stay	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stay	mark
14	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
15	any	any	ADV	_	16 longer	advmod
16	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 stay	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 think	mark
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 husband	nmod:poss
20	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 think	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 think	aux
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stay	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 run	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 run	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 run	aux
26	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 think	ccomp
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 run	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 devoured	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 devoured	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 devoured	mark
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 beast	det
32	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beast	amod
33	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 devoured	nsubj:pass
34	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 devoured	aux
35	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 run	advcl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 devoured	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	'		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not stay	ought	I			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	future	my husband				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	run away	present · perfect	I			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	devour	present · perfect · passive		some evil beast			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 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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