The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 134

On her hands and feet she went, but even with the horse-shoes on she had to be very careful not to stumble, lest some poisoned thorns should enter into her flesh, and she should die.

Who acts: girl, poisoned thorns · What happens: go, have, be, not stumble, poison, enter · To what, where: hands, flesh

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, poisoned thorns), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 hands	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feet	cc
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hands	conj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shoes	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 shoes	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	15 shoes	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 shoes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shoes	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shoes	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 horse	punct
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
16	on	on	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	22 careful	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 careful	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 careful	advmod
22	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 had	ccomp
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 stumble	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 stumble	mark
25	stumble	stumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 careful	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 enter	punct
27	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	32 enter	mark
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 thorns	det
29	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 thorns	amod
30	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 enter	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 enter	aux
32	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stumble	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 flesh	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 flesh	nmod:poss
35	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 enter	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 die	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 die	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 die	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 die	aux
40	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stumble	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	girl	girl's hands and feet	with the horse shoes	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with shoe=Beneficiary
2	have	past	girl			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	girl not said here		careful property	tree rules
4	not stumble	to-infinitive	girl not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	poison	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	enter	should	some poisoned thorns	girl's flesh		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into flesh=Initial_Location
7	die	should	girl			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «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 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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