The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 92
Most people are afraid of SOME thing, and bears and serpents were the only creatures that caused the lion’s heart to tremble.
Who acts: Most people, bears, only creatures, heart · What happens: be, cause, tremble · To what, where: only creatures, heart
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most people, bears, only creatures, heart), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 thing | case |
| 6 | SOME | some | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 afraid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 creatures | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 creatures | cc |
| 10 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 creatures | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 serpents | cc |
| 12 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bears | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 creatures | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 creatures | det |
| 15 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creatures | amod |
| 16 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 afraid | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 caused | nsubj |
| 18 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 lion | case |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caused | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 tremble | mark |
| 24 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 caused | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most people | of SOME thing; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | bears and serpents | the only creatures | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | the only creatures | the lion's heart | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tremble | to-infinitive | the lion's heart not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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