The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 23

The old woman was afraid that if Gerda saw the roses she would begin to think about her own, and then would remember Kay and run away.

Who acts: old woman, Gerda · What happens: be, see, begin, think, remember, run away · To what, where: roses, Kay

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, Gerda), 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 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 afraid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	cop
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 begin	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
8	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 begin	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roses	det
11	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begin	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 begin	aux
14	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 afraid	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begin	xcomp
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 own	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 own	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 think	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remember	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 remember	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 remember	advmod
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 remember	aux
24	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	parataxis
25	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 remember	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 run	cc
27	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 remember	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 run	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old woman			afraid property	tree rules
2	see a condition, not said to happen	past	Gerda	the roses			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus
3	begin	would	Gerda				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here			about Gerda's own	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about own=Topic
5	remember	would		Kay	then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kay=Theme
6	run away	infinitive				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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