The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 44

He was so frightened at the danger he was in that he had as much forgotten the word as if he had never heard it.

Who acts: Cassim · What happens: frighten, have, forget, not hear · To what, where: Cassim, danger, word, door

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cassim), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 frightened	advmod
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 danger	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 danger	det
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 in	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 in	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	7 danger	acl:relcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 in	advcl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 forgotten	advmod
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 had	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forgotten	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 heard	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 heard	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 heard	advmod
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 forgotten	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		Cassim	the danger	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	have	past	Cassim			tree rules
3	forget	participle	Cassim not said here	the word		tree rules
4	not hear	past · perfect	Cassim	door		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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