The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 127
You may be certain I was in great pain, but the fear of being killed prevented me from making any complaint.
Who acts: You, I, fear · What happens: be, kill, prevent, make · To what, where: great pain, fear, me, complaint
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, fear), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 certain | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 certain | cop |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pain | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pain | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pain | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pain | amod |
| 9 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 certain | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prevented | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 prevented | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fear | det |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prevented | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 killed | aux:pass |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fear | acl |
| 17 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 certain | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 prevented | obj |
| 19 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 20 making | mark |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 prevented | advcl |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 complaint | det |
| 22 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | You | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | great pain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | gerund · passive | the fear not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | prevent | past | the fear | me | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund | the fear not said here | any complaint | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset complaint=Product |
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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