The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 89

‘He told me that I should have to pass through a wood full of all sorts of enchantments and voices, which would try to frighten me and make me lose my way.

Who acts: hermit, I, voices, me · What happens: tell, have, pass, try, frighten, make · To what, where: me, wood, way, enchantments · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, I, voices, me), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pass	mark
10	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	xcomp
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pass	obl
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sorts	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 sorts	det
17	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 full	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 enchantments	case
19	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sorts	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 voices	cc
21	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 enchantments	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 try	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 try	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 try	aux
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 voices	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 frighten	mark
27	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 try	xcomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 frighten	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 make	cc
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 frighten	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 make	obj
32	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 make	xcomp
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 way	nmod:poss
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lose	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	hermit		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	should	I				tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	I not said here			a wood	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location
4	try	would	voices				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	frighten not said to happen	to-infinitive	voices not said here	me			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
6	make	infinitive	voices not said here	me			tree rules
7	lose	infinitive	me not said here	my way			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
8	sort			enchantments and voices			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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