The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 8

When the messengers came to fetch her she was terribly frightened, for she knew that it was her wicked stepmother who in this way was aiming at her life.

Who acts: messengers, girl, stepdaughter, wicked stepmother · What happens: come, fetch, frighten, know, be, aim · To what, where: girl, wicked stepmother, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messengers, girl, stepdaughter, wicked stepmother), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 messengers	det
3	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fetch	mark
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fetch	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 frightened	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	aux:pass
10	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	11 frightened	advmod
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fetch	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 knew	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 stepmother	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stepmother	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stepmother	cop
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 stepmother	nmod:poss
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stepmother	amod
21	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	ccomp
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 aiming	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 aiming	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 aiming	aux
27	aiming	aim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stepmother	acl:relcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 life	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 aiming	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the messengers				tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the messengers not said here	girl			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	frighten	past · passive		girl		terribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	know	past	girl				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	stepdaughter	girl's wicked stepmother			tree rules
6	aim	past · progressive	girl's wicked stepmother		this way	at girl's life	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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