The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 63

She thought that if she carried him off to some frightful cavern and chained him to a rock, then the fear of death would make him forget Bellissima and become her slave.

Who acts: Princess, fear, King · What happens: think, carry off, chain, make, forget, become · To what, where: King, frightful cavern, Bellissima, slave, death

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (Princess, fear, King), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 carried	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 carried	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	nsubj
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 carried	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 cavern	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 cavern	det
11	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cavern	amod
12	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chained	cc
14	chained	chain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chained	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 rock	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rock	det
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chained	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 make	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fear	det
22	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 death	case
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fear	nmod
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 chained	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	obj
28	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	xcomp
29	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 forget	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 become	cc
31	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 forget	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 slave	nmod:poss
33	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 become	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Princess					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	carry off a condition, not said to happen	past	Princess	King	some frightful cavern			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cavern=Destination
3	chain	past	Princess not said here	King			to a rock	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to rock=Co-Patient
4	make	would	the fear of death	King		then		tree rules
5	forget	infinitive	King not said here	Bellissima				tree rules
6	become	infinitive	King not said here	Princess's slave				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	fear			death				nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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