The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 28

‘When I came in and saw the pack-saddle over my head, I thought how dreadful it would be if it fell and killed me,’ and she cried louder than before.

Who acts: I, saddle, woman · What happens: come in, see, think, be, kill, cry · To what, where: pack saddle, head, me

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 (I, 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	_	4 came	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 saddle	det
9	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saddle	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 pack	punct
11	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saddle	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 dreadful	advmod
19	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thought	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dreadful	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fell	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 fell	cop
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 fell	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dreadful	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 killed	cc
27	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fell	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 killed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cried	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cried	nsubj
33	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fell	conj
34	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 cried	advmod
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 before	case
36	before	before	ADV	_	34 louder	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	I not said here	the pack saddle	my head		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saddle=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past	I			dreadful property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	would	saddle			fall property	tree rules
5	kill	past	saddle not said here	me			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	cry speech: express	past	woman				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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