The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 95

The witch began to be afraid of it too, and putting out all her strength slipped past him.

Who acts: witch, putting · What happens: begin, be, put out, slip · To what, where: strength

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, putting), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 afraid	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	obl
9	too	too	ADV	_	6 afraid	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slipped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slipped	cc
12	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 slipped	csubj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 putting	compound:prt
14	all	all	ADV	_	16 strength	advmod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 strength	nmod:poss
16	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 putting	obj
17	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
18	past	past	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slipped	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the witch			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	the witch not said here		of pigeon; afraid property	tree rules
3	put out	gerund		sun's strength		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent strength=Goal
4	slip	past	putting		past crow	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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