The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 9

And Thakane answered: “I was crying for my baby—I cannot hide her for ever, and if the ogre sees her, he will eat her; and I would rather she was drowned than that.”

Who acts: Thakane, ogre · What happens: answer, cry, not hide, see, eat, drown · To what, where: Thakane · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Thakane, ogre), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 crying	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 crying	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crying	aux
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 answered	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 baby	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 baby	nmod:poss
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crying	obl
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 hide	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hide	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hide	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hide	advmod
16	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hide	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ever	case
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 hide	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 eat	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 sees	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ogre	det
24	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sees	nsubj
25	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 eat	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sees	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sees	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eat	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 eat	aux
30	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 hide	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eat	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 drowned	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 drowned	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 drowned	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 drowned	aux
36	rather	rather	ADV	_	39 drowned	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 drowned	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 drowned	aux:pass
39	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 answered	conj
40	than	than	ADP	_	41 that	case
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 drowned	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Thakane			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past · progressive	Thakane		for my baby	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for baby=Recipient
3	not hide in a quote	can	Thakane	Thakane		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the ogre	Thakane		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	eat in a quote	future	ogre	Thakane		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	drown in a quote	would · passive		Thakane	than that	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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