The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 126

For he thought to himself: ‘The wild beasts will soon eat her up.’

Who acts: huntsman, wild beasts · What happens: think, eat up · To what, where: huntsman, SNOWDROP · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, wild beasts), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 thought	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 thought	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beasts	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beasts	amod
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 eat	advmod
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 eat	compound:prt
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	huntsman		huntsman				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	eat up	future	the wild beasts	SNOWDROP				soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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