The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 59

If the wind was cold or the sun was hot and she was afraid to go out lest her complexion should be spoilt, she need only to run down to the spring close by and say softly, ‘I should like my churns to be full, and my wet linen to be stretched on the hedge to dry,’ and she need never give another thought to the matter.

Who acts: wind, sun, Barbaik, I · What happens: be, go out, spoil, need, run down, say · To what, where: complexion, wet linen, churns, hedge, thought, matter · 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 (wind, sun, Barbaik, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 cold	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 hot	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hot	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hot	cop
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cold	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 afraid	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 afraid	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	cop
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cold	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 afraid	xcomp
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	23 spoilt	mark
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 complexion	nmod:poss
20	complexion	complexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spoilt	nsubj:pass
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 spoilt	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 spoilt	aux:pass
23	spoilt	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 go	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 need	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 need	nsubj
26	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	conj
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 run	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 run	mark
29	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 need	xcomp
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 run	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 spring	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 spring	det
33	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 run	obl
34	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 spring	amod
35	by	by	ADP	_	34 close	fixed
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 say	cc
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 run	conj
38	softly	softly	ADV	_	37 say	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 like	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 like	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 like	nsubj
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 like	aux
43	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 say	conj
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 churns	nmod:poss
45	churns	churn	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 like	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	48 full	mark
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 full	cop
48	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 like	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 linen	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 linen	cc
51	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 linen	nmod:poss
52	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 linen	amod
53	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 say	obl
54	to	to	PART	_	56 stretched	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 stretched	aux:pass
56	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 linen	acl
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 hedge	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 hedge	det
59	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 stretched	obl
60	to	to	PART	_	61 dry	mark
61	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 stretched	advcl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cold	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cold	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 need	cc
65	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 need	nsubj
66	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	conj
67	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	68 give	advmod
68	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 need	xcomp
69	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	70 thought	det
70	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 give	obj
71	to	to	ADP	_	73 matter	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 matter	det
73	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 give	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wind					cold property	tree rules
2	is	past	the sun					hot property	tree rules
3	is	past	Barbaik					afraid property	tree rules
4	go out	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	spoil	should · passive		Barbaik's complexion					tree rules
6	need	present	Barbaik						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	run down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here				spring	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	say speech: assert	infinitive	Barbaik not said here	my wet linen				softly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	like	should	I	my churns					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot churn=Theme
10	is	to-infinitive	I not said here					full property	tree rules
11	stretch	to-infinitive · passive	Barbaik not said here	my wet linen not said here		the hedge			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»
12	dry	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
13	need	present	Barbaik						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
14	not give not said to happen	infinitive	Barbaik not said here	another thought	the matter				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Theme to matter=Recipient

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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