The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 79

But whenever the bottom gave a little creak he was in terror lest the trunk should go to pieces, for then he would have turned a dreadful somersault-just think of it!

Who acts: bottom, trunk · What happens: give, be, go, turn, think · To what, where: little creak, terror, dreadful somersault

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom, trunk), 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	_	5 gave	cc
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 gave	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottom	det
4	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 creak	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creak	amod
8	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 terror	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 terror	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 terror	case
12	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 creak	nmod
13	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trunk	det
15	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 terror	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 pieces	case
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turned	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 then	case
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 turned	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turned	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 turned	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 turned	aux
26	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 go	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 somersault	det
28	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 somersault	amod
29	somersault	somersault	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 think	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	32 think	advmod
32	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gave	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 think	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the bottom	a little creak		whenever property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creak=Theme
2	is	past	bottom		terror		tree rules
3	go	should	the trunk	terror not said here		to pieces	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location terror=Theme
4	turn	would · perfect	bottom	a dreadful somersault			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme
5	think speech: other	infinitive	the bottom not said here			of Trunk	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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