The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 61

But she was afraid to go away there without having a stick to defend herself with if anything should come near her.

Who acts: world, stick, anything · What happens: be, go away, have, defend, come · To what, where: stick, world

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, stick, anything), 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 afraid	xcomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 go	advmod
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 having	mark
10	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 go	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stick	det
12	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 having	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 defend	mark
14	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 having	xcomp
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 defend	obj
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 come	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 defend	advcl
21	near	near	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	world			afraid property	tree rules
2	go away	to-infinitive	world not said here		there	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	gerund	world not said here	a stick			tree rules
4	defend	to-infinitive	a stick not said here	world			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary
5	come a condition, not said to happen	should	anything			near world	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location

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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