The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 28

He feared lest his father should fall down in a fit, his face was so red and his eyes seemed bursting from his head.

Who acts: man, father, face, eyes · What happens: fear, fall down, be, seem, burst · To what, where: fit, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, father, face, eyes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	7 fall	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fall	aux
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 fall	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 fit	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fit	det
11	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 red	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 face	nmod:poss
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 red	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 red	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 red	advmod
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fall	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seemed	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 red	conj
22	bursting	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 seemed	xcomp
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bursting	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fear	past	man			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fall down	should	man's father	a fit	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fit=Location
3	is	past	man's face		red property	tree rules
4	seem	past	man's eyes			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	burst	gerund	man's eyes not said here	man's head		vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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