The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 97

Every night they went to bed wondering if they should find his room empty in the morning, and every day they kept him by their sides, expecting him to be snatched away before their very eyes.

Who acts: Mermaid · What happens: go, wonder, find, keep, expect, snatch away · To what, where: bed, room, happiness

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mermaid), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	advcl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 find	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wondering	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 room	nmod:poss
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
14	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 find	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 morning	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 morning	det
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 empty	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kept	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kept	cc
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kept	obl:unmarked
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kept	nsubj
23	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kept	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 sides	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sides	nmod:poss
27	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 kept	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 expecting	punct
29	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 kept	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 expecting	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 snatched	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 snatched	aux:pass
33	snatched	snatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 expecting	advcl
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 snatched	advmod
35	before	before	ADP	_	38 eyes	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 eyes	nmod:poss
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 eyes	advmod
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 snatched	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Mermaid		bed	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Mermaid not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	find a condition, not said to happen	should	Mermaid	happiness's room			empty property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic
4	keep	past	Mermaid	happiness		day	by Mermaid's sides	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by side=Location
5	expect	gerund	Mermaid not said here	happiness				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	snatch away	to-infinitive · passive	Mermaid not said here			before Mermaid's eyes	away property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»

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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