The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 53

The poor child, who was only seven years old, nearly died of fear on finding herself in the power of this hideous creature.

Who acts: poor child · What happens: be, die, find · To what, where: child, power

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (poor child), 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 child	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 old	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 seven	advmod
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 died	punct
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	13 died	advmod
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 fear	case
15	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	obl
16	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 finding	mark
17	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 died	advcl
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 finding	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 power	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 power	det
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 finding	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 creature	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 creature	det
24	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 creature	amod
25	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 power	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor child			year	old property	tree rules
2	die	past	the poor child not said here				of fear; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fear=Causer
3	find	gerund	the poor child not said here	child	the power of this hideous creature			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic

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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