The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 37

But, alas! when he came out again he found that the hen had grown so shy that she would not let him come near her.

Who acts: boy, hen, maiden · What happens: come out, find, grow, not let, come · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, hen, maiden), 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	_	7 came	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 alas	punct
3	alas	alas	INTJ	_	7 came	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 alas	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	advcl
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 grown	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hen	det
14	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grown	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grown	aux
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 found	ccomp
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 shy	advmod
18	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grown	xcomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 let	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 let	advmod
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 shy	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	near	near	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	boy		again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	find	past	boy				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	grow	past · perfect	the hen			shy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not let	would	maiden	boy			tree rules
5	come	infinitive	boy not said here			near maiden	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location

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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