The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 21

Her heart beat fast and she wept bitterly, for she remembered the old woman’s warning and knew not what misfortune might now befall her.

Who acts: heart, horse, misfortune, old woman · What happens: beat, weep, remember, not know, befall, warn · To what, where: warning, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, horse, misfortune, old 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	nsubj
3	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 beat	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wept	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wept	nsubj
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beat	conj
8	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	7 wept	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remembered	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 remembered	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 remembered	nsubj
12	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beat	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 warning	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 woman	case
17	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remembered	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knew	cc
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 remembered	conj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 knew	advmod
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 befall	obj
22	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 befall	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 befall	aux
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 befall	advmod
25	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 knew	ccomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 befall	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	horse's heart			fast property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	weep	past	horse			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remember	past	horse	the old woman's warning			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent warning=Theme
4	not know	past	horse not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	befall	might	misfortune	horse	now		tree rules
6	warn		the old woman				nom warning «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.

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