The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 17
It was about this time that the fairies suddenly took fright lest his love for his father should interfere with the plans they had made for the young prince.
Who acts: comfort, fairies, care · What happens: be, take, interfere, make, love · To what, where: fright, plans
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comfort, fairies, care), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 interfere | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 took | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fairies | det |
| 8 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 took | advmod |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | advcl |
| 11 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 14 love | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 love | nmod:poss |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 interfere | aux |
| 19 | interfere | interfere | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 plans | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plans | det |
| 22 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 interfere | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 plans | acl:relcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 prince | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prince | det |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 prince | amod |
| 29 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 interfere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | comfort | about this time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the fairies | fright | lest care's love; for care's father; suddenly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fright=Theme for father=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | interfere | should | with the plans | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | fairies = fairy | the plans not said here | for the young prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent plan=Product for prince=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | love | care | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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