The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 58

The boy thanked her, and followed the wind, fearing all the time that it might change its direction and lead him astray.

Who acts: boy, wind · What happens: thank, follow, fear, change, lead · To what, where: dove, wind, direction, boy

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thanked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 followed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 followed	cc
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fearing	punct
11	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 followed	advcl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fearing	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 change	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 change	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 change	aux
18	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fearing	advcl
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 direction	nmod:poss
20	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 change	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lead	cc
22	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 change	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lead	obj
24	astray	astray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lead	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the boy		dove			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	follow	past	the boy not said here	the wind				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
3	fear	gerund	the boy not said here			time		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	change	might	wind	wind's direction				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Patient
5	lead	infinitive	wind not said here	boy			astray property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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