The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 38

As the ninth night drew near she became very unhappy, for she feared lest some terrible mischance should arise and ruin all.

Who acts: thread, terrible mischance · What happens: draw, become, fear, arise, ruin · To what, where: all · 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 (thread, terrible mischance), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	obl
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 became	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	ccomp
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 unhappy	advmod
10	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feared	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 feared	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feared	nsubj
14	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
15	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	20 arise	mark
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 mischance	det
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mischance	amod
18	mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arise	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 arise	aux
20	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 feared	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ruin	cc
22	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 arise	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 ruin	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past			night		tree rules
2	become	past	thread			unhappy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	fear	past	thread				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	arise	should	some terrible mischance				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ruin	infinitive	some terrible mischance not said here	all			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient

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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