The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 52

She was afraid to disobey her parents, who would most likely beat her, yet the beasts would be sure to suffer if they were kept in, and she would perhaps be beaten for that too.

Who acts: girl, parents, beasts · What happens: be, disobey, beat, suffer, keep in · To what, where: parents, girl, beasts

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, parents, beasts), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 disobey	mark
5	disobey	disobey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disobey	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beat	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 beat	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 beat	aux
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 likely	advmod
12	likely	likely	ADV	_	13 beat	advmod
13	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 parents	acl:relcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beat	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	21 sure	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beasts	det
18	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sure	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sure	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sure	cop
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 afraid	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 suffer	mark
23	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sure	xcomp
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 kept	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kept	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 kept	aux:pass
27	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 suffer	advcl
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 kept	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 beaten	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 beaten	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 beaten	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 beaten	aux
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	35 beaten	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 beaten	aux:pass
35	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 afraid	parataxis
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 that	case
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 beaten	obl
38	too	too	ADV	_	35 beaten	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	girl		afraid property	tree rules
2	disobey	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl's parents		tree rules
3	beat	would	girl's parents	girl	likely property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
4	is	would	the beasts		sure property	tree rules
5	suffer	to-infinitive	the beasts not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	keep in a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		beasts = beast		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	beat	would · passive		girl	for that; perhaps property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 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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