The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 57

The poor youth was so terrified he did not know what to do, for he was in mortal dread of the punishment the wicked old Fairy would inflict on him.

Who acts: poor youth, youth, mortal dread · What happens: be, not know, do, inflict · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (poor youth, youth, mortal dread), 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 youth	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 youth	amod
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 terrified	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terrified	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 terrified	advmod
6	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 terrified	parataxis
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dread	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	20 dread	case
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dread	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dread	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dread	case
19	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dread	amod
20	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 inflict	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 punishment	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 punishment	det
23	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dread	nmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Fairy	det
25	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Fairy	amod
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Fairy	amod
27	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 inflict	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 inflict	aux
29	inflict	inflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	ccomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 inflict	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor youth	terrified property	tree rules
2	not know	past · do-support	youth		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	is	past	youth	for mortal dread; of the punishment	tree rules
5	inflict	would	mortal dread	on Prince	tree rules

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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