The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 75

Sometimes the girl was very sad and fearful lest her mother should come to know.

Who acts: girl, mother · What happens: be, come, know

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, mother), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 sad	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fearful	cc
8	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sad	conj
9	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fearful	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 know	mark
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl	sad, sometimes property	tree rules
2	be		the girl not said here		tree rules
3	come	should	arrow's mother		tree rules
4	know	to-infinitive	arrow's mother not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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