The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 89

But, frightened though they were, they did not forget to beg the lightning to take off the wolverine’s coat and to free his legs, but to be careful not to hurt him.

Who acts: wolves, lightning · What happens: frighten, not forget, beg, take off, be, not hurt · To what, where: lightning, coat, Wolverine

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, lightning), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 frightened	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 frightened	punct
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 forget	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forget	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forget	aux
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 forget	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forget	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forget	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 forget	advmod
11	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 frightened	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 beg	mark
13	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 forget	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lightning	det
15	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beg	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 beg	xcomp
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 take	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wolverine	det
20	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coat	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 wolverine	case
22	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 legs	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 free	mark
25	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 legs	amod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 legs	nmod:poss
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 take	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 careful	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 careful	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	32 careful	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 careful	cop
32	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forget	parataxis
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 hurt	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 hurt	mark
35	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 careful	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hurt	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle				tree rules
2	not forget	past · do-support	wolves = wolf			tree rules
3	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	wolves = wolf not said here	the lightning		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lightning=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lightning not said here	the wolverine's coat		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive			careful property	tree rules
6	not hurt	to-infinitive		Wolverine		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

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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