The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 7

Then a dreadful thirst seized her and the donkey, but there was no stream to quench it, and if there had been she would hardly have had time to stop, for she still had far to go, and must be back before evening, or else the crocodile might declare that the prince had not fulfilled his conditions.

Who acts: dreadful thirst, stream, princess, crocodile · What happens: seize, be, quench, have, stop, go · To what, where: princess, stream, prince

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful thirst, stream, princess, crocodile), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 seized	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thirst	det
3	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thirst	amod
4	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	nsubj
5	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seized	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 donkey	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 donkey	det
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 stream	det
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 quench	mark
17	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stream	acl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 quench	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 time	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 time	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 had	expl
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 had	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 had	aux:pass
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 had	aux
27	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	aux
29	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 stop	mark
32	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 time	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
36	still	still	ADV	_	37 had	advmod
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	conj
38	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 had	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 go	mark
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 far	acl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 evening	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 evening	cc
43	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 evening	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 evening	cop
45	back	back	ADV	_	47 evening	advmod
46	before	before	ADP	_	47 evening	case
47	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 declare	punct
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 declare	cc
50	else	else	ADV	_	54 declare	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 crocodile	det
52	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 declare	nsubj
53	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 declare	aux
54	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	conj
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 fulfilled	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 prince	det
57	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 fulfilled	aux
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 fulfilled	advmod
60	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 declare	advcl
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 conditions	nmod:poss
62	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 fulfilled	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	a dreadful thirst	princess		then; time		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	be	past	no stream		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	quench	to-infinitive	no stream not said here	stream				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
4	have a condition, not said to happen	would · past · perfect · passive		princess	there		hardly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	stop	to-infinitive	a dreadful thirst not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	have	past	princess			still	far property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	go	to-infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	must				before evening		tree rules
9	declare speech: other	might	the crocodile				else property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
10	not fulfil	past · perfect · passive		the prince				tree rules
11	condition		crocodile					nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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