The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 138
And their shouts reached the Princess’s ear, but she dared not ask what was happening, for fear she should hear that Charming had been killed.
Who acts: Charming · What happens: be, ask, happen, hear, kill · To what, where: Charming · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 reached | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nmod:poss |
| 3 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | cop |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Princess | case |
| 8 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dared | advmod |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reached | parataxis |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 happening | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happening | aux |
| 17 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ask | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hear | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 fear | case |
| 20 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hear | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hear | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hear | aux |
| 23 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 killed | mark |
| 25 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 killed | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 killed | aux:pass |
| 28 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hear | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | reach property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Charming | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hear | should | Charming | for fear | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Charming | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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