The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 161

Some plan must be invented, and she wished to lock herself in where no one could interrupt her, as might easily happen in the garden.

Who acts: shame, one · What happens: invent, wish, lock, interrupt, happen · To what, where: plan, shame, garden

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shame, one), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invented	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 invented	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 invented	aux:pass
5	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wished	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wished	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wished	nsubj
9	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invented	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lock	mark
11	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wished	xcomp
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 lock	obj
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 interrupt	mark
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 interrupt	advmod
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 interrupt	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 interrupt	aux
18	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lock	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 interrupt	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 happen	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 happen	mark
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 happen	aux
23	easily	easily	ADV	_	24 happen	advmod
24	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 interrupt	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 garden	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 garden	det
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 happen	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 invented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	invent	must · passive		some plan			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	wish	past	shame				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	lock not said to happen	to-infinitive	shame not said here	shame			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
4	interrupt	could	no one	shame			tree rules
5	happen	might	no one not said here		the garden	easily property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in garden=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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