The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 71
However, the fear of not getting away made her leave before the marriage was over.
Who acts: fear, Miranda, marriage · What happens: not get away, make, leave, be · To what, where: Miranda
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (fear, Miranda, marriage), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fear | det |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 getting | mark |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 getting | advmod |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 fear | acl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 getting | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 over | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marriage | det |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 over | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 over | cop |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 leave | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get away | gerund | the fear not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the fear | Miranda | however property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Miranda not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the marriage | over 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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