The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 34

At first all went well, but as soon as she had babies of her own she hated me, and I fled, lest she should do me harm.”

Who acts: mother, I · What happens: go, have, hate, flee, do, harm · To what, where: babies, me

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 (mother, I), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 went	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 had	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
13	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 own	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 babies	nmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hated	nsubj
18	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 own	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 hated	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fled	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 fled	nsubj
23	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fled	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 do	iobj
30	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 do	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past				well property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at first=Location
2	have	past	mother	babies of mother's own		soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
3	hate	past	mother	me			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	flee	past	I				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	should	mother		me		tree rules
6	harm	infinitive	mother not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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