The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 23

‘Suppose that pack-saddle were to fall and kill me, how dreadful it would be!’ and she sat down just under the pack-saddle she was so much afraid of, and began to cry.

Who acts: you, pack saddle, saddle, woman · What happens: suppose, fall, kill, be, sit down, begin · To what, where: me, pack saddle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, pack saddle, saddle, woman), 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	_	2 Suppose	punct
2	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 saddle	det
4	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saddle	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 pack	punct
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fall	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fall	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fall	mark
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Suppose	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kill	cc
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fall	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 kill	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dreadful	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 dreadful	advmod
15	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Suppose	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 be	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 be	aux
18	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 dreadful	ccomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Suppose	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Suppose	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Suppose	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
25	just	just	ADV	_	30 saddle	advmod
26	under	under	ADP	_	30 saddle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 saddle	det
28	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saddle	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 pack	punct
30	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 afraid	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 afraid	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 afraid	amod
35	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 saddle	advcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 afraid	case
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 cry	mark
41	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fall	past	that pack saddle				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill	infinitive	that pack saddle not said here	me			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	be	would	saddle				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit down	past	woman		the pack saddle		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under saddle=Location
6	is	past	woman			afraid property	tree rules
7	begin	past	woman not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	woman not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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