The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 43
I greatly fear that the King, his master, when he receives no tidings from him, will come to seek him among us, and will accuse us of having made mince-meat of him.
Who acts: I, King · What happens: fear, receive, come, seek, accuse, have · To what, where: tidings, Fanfaronade, us, made mince meat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fear | nsubj |
| 2 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 fear | advmod |
| 3 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 come | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 master | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 King | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 receives | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 receives | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 receives | nsubj |
| 13 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 master | acl:relcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 tidings | det |
| 15 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 receives | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tidings | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 King | punct |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fear | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seek | mark |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seek | obj |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 seek | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 accuse | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 accuse | cc |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 accuse | aux |
| 29 | accuse | accuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seek | conj |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 accuse | obj |
| 31 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 32 having | mark |
| 32 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 accuse | advcl |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 meat | amod |
| 34 | mince | mince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 meat | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 mince | punct |
| 36 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 having | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 meat | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | greatly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | receive | present | King | no tidings | from Fanfaronade | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 3 | come | future | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | the King not said here | Fanfaronade | among us | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme among we=Location | |||
| 5 | accuse | future | the King not said here | us | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | gerund | the King not said here | made mince meat of Fanfaronade | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||||
| 7 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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