The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 32

This transformation rather frightened Jegu, but the brownie bade him have no fears, for he would not do him any harm; indeed, he hoped that Jegu might find him of some use.

Who acts: transformation, Jegu · What happens: frighten, have, not do, hope, find · To what, where: Jegu, brownie bade, transformation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (transformation, Jegu), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 transformation	det
2	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	nsubj
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 frightened	advmod
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bade	det
9	brownie	brownie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bade	amod
10	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bade	obj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 fears	det
14	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 do	advmod
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	obj
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 harm	det
23	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 do	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 hoped	punct
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	28 hoped	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hoped	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hoped	nsubj
28	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 find	mark
30	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 find	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 find	aux
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hoped	ccomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 find	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 use	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 use	det
36	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 find	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past	this transformation	Jegu		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jegu=Experiencer
2	have	present		the brownie bade		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
3	not do	would	transformation	Jegu		tree rules
4	hope	past	transformation		indeed property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	find	might	Jegu	transformation	of some use	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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