The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 84
He could not even see his cows, and his heart sank lest, after all, he should have failed to bring them safely back.
Who acts: wind, heart · What happens: not see, sink, fail, not bring back · To what, where: cows
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cows | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sank | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | nsubj |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | parataxis |
| 13 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 16 all | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lest | punct |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sank | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 failed | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 failed | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 failed | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 failed | aux |
| 21 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 sank | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bring | mark |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 failed | xcomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | obj |
| 25 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 23 bring | advmod |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 bring | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | could | wind | wind's cows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | wind's heart | lest all | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fail | should · perfect | heart | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not bring back | to-infinitive | heart not said here | cows = cow | safely property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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