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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 116

This had happened so often that her subjects lived in terror of losing her altogether, and tried everything they could think of to keep her to the ground.

Who acts: This, subjects, terror · What happens: happen, live, lose, try, think, keep · To what, where: terror, Diaphana, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, subjects, terror), 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

nsubjauxadvmodadvmodmarknmod:possnsubjadvclcaseoblmarkaclobjadvmodpunctccconjobjnsubjauxacl:relclmarkmarkccompobjcasedetoblpunctrootThisPRONhadAUXhappenedVERBsoADVoftenADVthatSCONJherPRONsubjectsNOUNlivedVERBinADPterrorNOUNofSCONJlosingVERBherPRONaltogetherADV,PUNCTandCCONJtriedVERBeverythingPRONtheyPRONcouldAUXthinkVERBofSCONJtoPARTkeepVERBherPRONtoADPtheDETgroundNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 happenednsubj
2hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 happenedaux
3happenedhappenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
4sosoADV_5 oftenadvmod
5oftenoftenADV_3 happenedadvmod
6thatthatSCONJ_9 livedmark
7herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 subjectsnmod:poss
8subjectssubjectNOUNNumber=Plur9 livednsubj
9livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 happenedadvcl
10ininADP_11 terrorcase
11terrorterrorNOUNNumber=Sing9 livedobl
12ofofSCONJ_13 losingmark
13losingloseVERBVerbForm=Ger11 terroracl
14hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 losingobj
15altogetheraltogetherADV_13 losingadvmod
16,,PUNCT_18 triedpunct
17andandCCONJ_18 triedcc
18triedtryVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 livedconj
19everythingeverythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot18 triedobj
20theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 thinknsubj
21couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin22 thinkaux
22thinkthinkVERBVerbForm=Inf19 everythingacl:relcl
23ofofSCONJ_25 keepmark
24totoPART_25 keepmark
25keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf22 thinkccomp
26hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 keepobj
27totoADP_29 groundcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 grounddet
29groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing25 keepobl
30..PUNCT_3 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpast · perfectThisoften propertyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2livepastDiaphana's subjectsterrorvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location
3losegerundterror not said hereDiaphanaaltogether propertyvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
4trypastDiaphana's subjects not said hereeverythingvn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
5think speech: othercouldsubjects = subjectvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6keepto-infinitiveDiaphanato the groundvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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