The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 2
The natives came by degrees to be less fearful of danger from me.
Who acts: natives · What happens: come, be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives), 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 natives | det |
| 2 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 degrees | case |
| 5 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fearful | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fearful | cop |
| 8 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 fearful | advmod |
| 9 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 danger | case |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fearful | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 danger | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the natives | by degrees | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by degree=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the natives not said here | of danger from me; fearful, less 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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