The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 81

'Perhaps he will be so frightened at the sight of me that he may die of fear, and I shall never get the crown,' thought the monkey. '

Who acts: giant, I · What happens: frighten, die, not get, think, sight · To what, where: giant, sight, crown, monkey, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, I), 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	_	7 frightened	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 frightened	aux:pass
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 sight	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sight	det
10	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frightened	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sight	nmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 die	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 die	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 die	aux
16	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 frightened	advcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 fear	case
18	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 die	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 get	advmod
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 thought	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crown	det
26	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 monkey	det
31	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thought	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 frightened	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	future · passive		giant	the sight of me	perhaps property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	die	may	giant			of fear	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fear=Causer
3	not get	shall	I	the crown			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past		the monkey			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent monkey=Attribute clause=Theme
5	sight			me			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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