The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 61

Wondering and frightened, the old woman thought at last that this little baby might be a son to her in her old age, and that he would grow up and in time to come be her comfort and support.

Who acts: old woman, little baby, animal · What happens: wonder, frighten, think, be, grow up, come · To what, where: last, son, widow, comfort · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old woman, little baby, animal), 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	Wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 thought	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 frightened	cc
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wondering	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wondering	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thought	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 son	mark
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 baby	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 baby	amod
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 son	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 son	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 son	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 son	det
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 age	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 age	nmod:poss
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 age	amod
24	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grow	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 grow	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 grow	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 grow	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 grow	aux
30	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	ccomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 grow	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 time	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 time	case
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grow	obl:unmarked
35	to	to	PART	_	36 come	mark
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 time	acl
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 comfort	cop
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 comfort	nmod:poss
39	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 support	cc
41	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 comfort	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the old woman not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	frighten	participle	the old woman not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	past	the old woman			last	in widow's old age	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is a	might	this little baby	a son	widow			tree rules
5	grow up	would	animal				time	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	to-infinitive	animal not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	infinitive		widow's comfort and support				tree rules

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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