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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

nsubjadvmodmarkdetnsubjpunctnmod:possappospunctmarknsubjacl:relcldetobjcasenmodpunctauxccompmarkxcompobjcaseoblpunctccauxconjobjmarkadvclamodcompoundpunctobjcasenmodpunctrootIPRONgreatlyADVfearVERBthatSCONJtheDETKingPROPN,PUNCThisPRONmasterNOUN,PUNCTwhenSCONJhePRONreceivesVERBnoDETtidingsNOUNfromADPhimPRON,PUNCTwillAUXcomeVERBtoPARTseekVERBhimPRONamongADPusPRON,PUNCTandCCONJwillAUXaccuseVERBusPRONofSCONJhavingVERBmadeVERBminceNOUN-PUNCTmeatNOUNofADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 fearnsubj
2greatlygreatlyADV_3 fearadvmod
3fearfearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_20 comemark
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Kingdet
6KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing20 comensubj
7,,PUNCT_9 masterpunct
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 masternmod:poss
9mastermasterNOUNNumber=Sing6 Kingappos
10,,PUNCT_13 receivespunct
11whenwhenSCONJ_13 receivesmark
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 receivesnsubj
13receivesreceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 masteracl:relcl
14nonoDETPronType=Neg15 tidingsdet
15tidingstidingNOUNNumber=Plur13 receivesobj
16fromfromADP_17 himcase
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 tidingsnmod
18,,PUNCT_6 Kingpunct
19willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin20 comeaux
20comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf3 fearccomp
21totoPART_22 seekmark
22seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf20 comexcomp
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 seekobj
24amongamongADP_25 uscase
25uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs22 seekobl
26,,PUNCT_29 accusepunct
27andandCCONJ_29 accusecc
28willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin29 accuseaux
29accuseaccuseVERBVerbForm=Inf22 seekconj
30uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs29 accuseobj
31ofofSCONJ_32 havingmark
32havinghaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 accuseadvcl
33mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass36 meatamod
34minceminceNOUNNumber=Sing36 meatcompound
35--PUNCT_34 mincepunct
36meatmeatNOUNNumber=Sing32 havingobj
37ofofADP_38 himcase
38himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 meatnmod
39..PUNCT_3 fearpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fearpresentIgreatly propertyvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2receivepresentKingno tidingsfrom Fanfaronadevn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme from he=Source
3comefuturethe Kingtree rules
4seekto-infinitivethe King not said hereFanfaronadeamong usvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme among we=Location
5accusefuturethe King not said hereusvn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent we=Theme
6havegerundthe King not said heremade mince meat of Fanfaronadevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
7makeparticiplevn 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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