The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 82

As soon as the stepmother heard what his errand was she at once said to herself, ‘This will never come about if I can do anything to hinder it.

Who acts: stepmother, errand, girl, This, I · What happens: hear, be, say, not come about, do, hinder · To what, where: girl, anything, errand · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stepmother, errand, girl, This), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 heard	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 heard	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stepmother	det
5	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 heard	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 errand	nmod:poss
9	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 she	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 she	cop
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 said	obl
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 what	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 herself	case
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
19	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 come	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 come	advmod
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	conj
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	advcl
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 do	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 hinder	mark
30	hinder	hinder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 anything	acl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hinder	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the stepmother			soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	is a	past	king's errand	girl			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	participle	girl		girl		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
4	not come about	future	This			about property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do a condition, not said to happen	can	I	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
6	hinder	to-infinitive	I not said here	errand			vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Eventuality

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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