The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 66

When the last one was gone, Ian should have gone also, and left the three sisters to come after him; but he had forgotten the raven's warning, and bade them go first, lest some accident should happen.

Who acts: last one, Ian, accident, raven · What happens: be, go, leave, come, forget, happen · To what, where: three sisters, warning, bade

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last one, Ian, accident, raven), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 go	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct
8	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 gone	parataxis
12	also	also	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 left	cc
15	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sisters	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sisters	nummod
18	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 left	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 left	advcl
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 forgotten	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 forgotten	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 forgotten	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 forgotten	aux
27	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 gone	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 raven	det
29	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 warning	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 raven	case
31	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 forgotten	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 go	cc
34	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bade	obj
36	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 go	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 happen	punct
39	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	43 happen	mark
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 accident	det
41	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 happen	nsubj
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 happen	aux
43	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 go	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the last one			gone property	tree rules
2	go	should · perfect	Ian				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	past		the three sisters			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
4	come	to-infinitive			after Ian		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	forget	past · perfect	Ian	the raven's warning			tree rules
6	go	present		bade		first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	happen	should	some accident				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	warn		the raven				nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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