The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 74

He forgot who ought to be paid off for what he had suffered, he forgot both his sack of money and his wooing, for he was so afraid lest the house-door should come dancing after him.

Who acts: attorney, afraid · What happens: forget, pay off, suffer, be, come, dance · To what, where: sack

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attorney, afraid), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 paid	nsubj:pass
4	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 paid	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	7 paid	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 paid	aux:pass
7	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 forgot	parataxis
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 paid	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 paid	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 suffered	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 suffered	aux
13	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 what	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forgot	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forgot	nsubj
16	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	conj
17	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 sack	det:predet
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sack	nmod:poss
19	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forgot	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 money	case
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sack	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wooing	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wooing	nmod:poss
24	wooing	wooing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 money	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 afraid	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 afraid	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 afraid	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 afraid	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 afraid	advmod
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 come	nsubj
31	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	35 door	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 door	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 house	punct
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 afraid	obl
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forgot	parataxis
38	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 come	xcomp
39	after	after	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 dancing	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	attorney				tree rules
2	pay off	ought · passive					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for what=Theme
3	suffer	past · perfect	attorney				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	forget	past	attorney	attorney's sack of money and attorney's wooing			tree rules
5	is	past	attorney			lest the house door; afraid property	tree rules
6	come	should	afraid				tree rules
7	dance	gerund	afraid not said here		after attorney		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	woo		attorney				nom wooing «communication transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/74/