The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 30

His mother was frightened at the idea, but the boy told her that she need not be alarmed; all would be well.

Who acts: boy, all · What happens: frighten, tell, not alarm, be · To what, where: mother, idea, market · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, all), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 idea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 idea	det
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 alarmed	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 alarmed	nsubj
16	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 alarmed	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 alarmed	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 alarmed	aux:pass
19	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 told	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 well	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 well	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 well	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 well	cop
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 frightened	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		boy's mother		the idea		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	the boy		market			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not alarm	present · passive		market				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	is	would	all				well property	tree rules

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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