The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 93

The girl was so frightened or so tired that she was only prevented from falling by the iron chain about her waist, and there she hung, as if she were dead.

Who acts: girl · What happens: be, prevent, fall, hang · To what, where: girl

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 tired	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frightened	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 prevented	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 prevented	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 prevented	aux:pass
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 prevented	advmod
13	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tired	advcl
14	from	from	SCONJ	_	15 falling	mark
15	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 prevented	advcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 chain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chain	det
18	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chain	compound
19	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 falling	obl
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 waist	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 waist	nmod:poss
22	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chain	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hung	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hung	cc
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 hung	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hung	nsubj
27	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dead	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 dead	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 dead	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dead	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dead	cop
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hung	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl			frightened property	tree rules
2	be		the girl not said here				tree rules
3	prevent	past · passive		girl			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	fall	gerund				by the iron chain about girl's waist	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by chain=Location
5	hang	past	girl		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	girl			dead property	tree rules

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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