The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 23

Some weeks passed, during which the peasant did not come round to ask after the calf, being frightened lest it should cost him another hundred dollars, for he had begun to squirm a bit at having to part with so much money.

Who acts: weeks, peasant, man · What happens: pass, not come round, ask, frighten, cost, begin · To what, where: hundred dollars, man, bit, part

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weeks, peasant, man), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 weeks	det
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
5	during	during	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 come	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 peasant	det
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 passed	parataxis
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ask	mark
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	advcl
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 calf	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 calf	det
17	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ask	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 frightened	punct
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 frightened	aux:pass
20	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 come	parataxis
21	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	24 cost	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cost	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 cost	aux
24	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 frightened	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cost	iobj
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 hundred	det
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 dollars	nummod
28	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cost	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 begun	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 begun	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 begun	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 begun	aux
33	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 frightened	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 squirm	mark
35	squirm	squirm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 begun	xcomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bit	det
37	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 squirm	obj
38	at	at	SCONJ	_	39 having	mark
39	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 squirm	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 part	mark
41	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 having	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 money	case
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 much	advmod
44	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 money	amod
45	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 having	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	some weeks					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come round	past · do-support	the peasant				round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the peasant not said here			after the calf		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	frighten	gerund · passive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	cost	should	peasant	hundred dollars	man			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary dollar=Value
6	begin	past · perfect	man					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	squirm	to-infinitive	man not said here	a bit				tree rules
8	have	gerund	man not said here	part			with much money	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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