The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 63

From her childhood she had heard stories of the terrible beings that lived in the forests and were hidden under the banks of the rivers, and could only be kept off by powerful charms.

Who acts: creature, terrible beings, powerful charms · What happens: hear, live, hide, keep off · To what, where: stories, childhood, forests, banks

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, terrible beings, powerful charms), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 childhood	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 childhood	nmod:poss
3	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 beings	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beings	det
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beings	amod
11	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stories	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beings	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forests	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forests	det
16	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lived	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hidden	cc
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hidden	aux:pass
19	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lived	conj
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 banks	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 banks	det
22	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hidden	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 rivers	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rivers	det
25	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 banks	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kept	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kept	cc
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 kept	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 kept	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 kept	aux:pass
31	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 heard	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 kept	compound:prt
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 charms	case
34	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 charms	amod
35	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 kept	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	creature	stories of the terrible beings	creature's childhood	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent story=Topic from childhood=Source
2	live	past	the terrible beings		the forests	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
3	hide	past · passive	the terrible beings not said here		the banks of the rivers	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: under bank=Location
4	keep off	could · passive	powerful charms			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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