The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 3

Now, of course, all dogs had been kept from him for fear that the fairies’ prophecy should come true, and he had never even beheld one before.

Who acts: prophecy, dog · What happens: keep, come, not behold · To what, where: dogs, fear, one

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophecy, dog), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 kept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
4	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 of	fixed
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 of	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 dogs	det
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kept	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 kept	aux:pass
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 fear	case
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fairies	det
17	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 prophecy	nmod:poss
18	’	's	PART	_	17 fairies	case
19	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fear	acl
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 come	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 beheld	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 beheld	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 beheld	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 beheld	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 beheld	advmod
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 beheld	advmod
29	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 kept	conj
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 beheld	obj
31	before	before	ADV	_	30 one	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · perfect · passive		all dogs	now	from baby; for fear	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from he=Eventuality
2	come	should	the fairies's prophecy	fear not said here		true property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fear=Theme
3	not behold	past · perfect	dog	one			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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