The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 51

The young man was terribly afraid of being recognised by someone in this strange position, and would have turned on his heel and gone away had it not been for the thought of Minon-Minette.

Who acts: young man, someone · What happens: be, recognise, turn, go away, have, not be · To what, where: heel, bundle

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, someone), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
5	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	6 afraid	advmod
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 recognised	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 recognised	aux:pass
9	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 afraid	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 someone	case
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 recognised	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 position	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 position	det
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 position	amod
15	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 someone	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turned	cc
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 turned	aux
20	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 afraid	parataxis
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 heel	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heel	nmod:poss
23	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gone	cc
25	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 turned	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 gone	advmod
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	obj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 thought	advmod
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 thought	cop
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 thought	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 thought	det
33	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Minon	case
35	Minon	Minon	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 thought	nmod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Minette	punct
37	Minette	Minette	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Minon	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young man			afraid, terribly property	tree rules
2	recognise	gerund · passive	someone				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn	would · perfect			king's heel		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory
4	go away	participle				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past		bundle			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	not is	participle				for the thought; of Minon and Minette	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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