The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 111

The Ogre, fearing his wife would be too long in doing what he had ordered, went up himself to help her.

Who acts: Ogre · What happens: fear, be, do, order, go up, help · To what, where: wife, ogre

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogre), 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 Ogre	det
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 long	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ogre	punct
4	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Ogre	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fearing	obj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 long	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 long	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 doing	mark
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 long	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 doing	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ordered	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ordered	aux
16	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 what	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 went	compound:prt
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 went	obl:unmarked
21	to	to	PART	_	22 help	mark
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fear	gerund	the Ogre not said here	ogre's wife			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
2	is	would	the Ogre			long property	tree rules
3	do	gerund	the Ogre not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	order	past · perfect	ogre				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	go up	past	the Ogre not said here	ogre			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	help	to-infinitive	the Ogre not said here		wife		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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