The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 119

‘I feared lest it should fall over, and be broken, with your soul in it,’ said the queen, ‘so I put it further back on the ledge.’

Who acts: I, stone · What happens: fear, fall over, break, say, put · To what, where: queen, stone, ledge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stone), 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	_	3 feared	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
4	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	7 fall	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fall	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fall	aux
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feared	ccomp
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 fall	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 broken	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 broken	cc
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 broken	aux:pass
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feared	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 soul	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 soul	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 soul	nmod:poss
16	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broken	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 soul	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feared	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 feared	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 queen	det
23	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 queen	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 put	nsubj
28	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	further	further	ADV	_	31 back	advmod
31	back	back	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 ledge	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ledge	det
34	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fear	past	I				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fall over	should	stone			over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	infinitive · passive	I not said here			with your soul in stone	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with soul=Instrument
4	say speech: assert	past		the queen			tree rules
5	put	past	I	stone	the ledge		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ledge=Destination

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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