The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 58

But Marie was afraid; she could not tell why, only she could not bear the child to go.

Who acts: Marie, Snowflake · What happens: be, not tell, not bear, go · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marie, Snowflake), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 afraid	cc
2	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 afraid	parataxis
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 tell	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bear	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	16 bear	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bear	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bear	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bear	advmod
16	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bear	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bear	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Marie		afraid property	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	could	Snowflake			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not bear	could	Snowflake	the child		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	go	to-infinitive	Snowflake not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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