The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 10

‘Madam, we fear that Rosette may be the cause of great misfortunes to her brothers; they may even meet with their death through her; that is all we have been able to foresee about your dear little daughter.

Who acts: Madam, Rosette, brothers, that · What happens: fear, be, meet, foresee, die · To what, where: cause · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, Rosette, brothers, that), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fear	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 fear	nsubj
5	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 cause	mark
7	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cause	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cause	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 cause	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cause	det
11	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fear	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 misfortunes	case
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 misfortunes	amod
14	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cause	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 brothers	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 misfortunes	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 meet	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 meet	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 meet	aux
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 meet	advmod
22	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fear	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 death	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 death	nmod:poss
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 meet	obl
26	through	through	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 meet	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 able	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 able	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 able	cop
31	all	all	ADV	_	35 able	advmod
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 able	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 able	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 able	cop
35	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fear	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 foresee	mark
37	foresee	foresee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	xcomp
38	about	about	ADP	_	42 daughter	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 daughter	nmod:poss
40	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 daughter	amod
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 daughter	amod
42	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 foresee	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fear	present	Madam			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	may	Rosette	the cause	of great misfortunes to Rosette's brothers	tree rules
3	meet	may	brothers = brother		with brothers's death; through Rosette	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with death=Co-Agent
4	is	present · perfect	that		able, all property	tree rules
5	foresee	to-infinitive	that not said here		about your dear little daughter	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	die		brothers = brother			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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