The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 30

'I feared the Fairy of the Fountain, and the cruel beasts,' said she; 'but somehow I never thought of the dangers that I ran from men.

Who acts: I, cruel beasts · What happens: fear, say, not think, run · To what, where: Fairy, dangers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cruel beasts), 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 feared	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 feared	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Fountain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fountain	det
8	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fairy	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beasts	det
12	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beasts	amod
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beasts	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 beasts	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feared	conj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 feared	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 feared	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
21	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	24 thought	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 thought	advmod
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feared	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 dangers	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dangers	det
27	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 thought	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 ran	obj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 ran	nsubj
30	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dangers	acl:relcl
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 men	case
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ran	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fear	past	I	the Fairy of the Fountain		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the cruel beasts			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not think speech: other	past	I		of the dangers; somehow property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run	past	I	the dangers	from men	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme from man=Trajectory

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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