The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 62
Slowly he unloosed the bundle, fearing lest he should find nothing but a heap of stones or rags.
Who acts: son · What happens: unloose, fear, find · To what, where: bundle, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 unloosed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unloosed | nsubj |
| 3 | unloosed | unloose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bundle | det |
| 5 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unloosed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fearing | punct |
| 7 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 unloosed | advcl |
| 8 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fearing | advcl |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 heap | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 heap | det |
| 15 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stones | case |
| 17 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heap | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 rags | cc |
| 19 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stones | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unloosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unloose | past | son | the bundle | slowly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fear | gerund | son not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | find | should | son | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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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