The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 13

And now, because he was afraid that their stepmother might not treat them well and might do them harm, he put them in a lonely castle that stood in the middle of a wood.

Who acts: king, stepmother, lonely castle · What happens: be, not treat, do, harm, put, stand · To what, where: boys, lonely castle, middle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, stepmother, lonely castle), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 afraid	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 afraid	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 afraid	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 afraid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	cop
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 treat	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stepmother	nmod:poss
10	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 treat	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 treat	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 treat	advmod
13	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 afraid	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 treat	obj
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 treat	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 do	cc
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 treat	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	obj
20	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 do	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 castle	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 castle	det
27	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 castle	amod
28	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 stood	nsubj
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 castle	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 middle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 middle	det
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 wood	det
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 middle	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	king			now	afraid property	tree rules
2	not treat	might	boys's stepmother	boys = boy			well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	do	might	boys's stepmother not said here	boys = boy				tree rules
4	harm	infinitive	boys's stepmother not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	put	past	king	boys = boy	a lonely castle			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in castle=Destination
6	stand	past	a lonely castle		the middle of a wood			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

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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