The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 8

Once her heart would have been glad at the sight, but now that they two were alone in the world she feared some harm might come of it.

Who acts: heart, mother, wife, world · What happens: be, fear, come · To what, where: sight, world, harm

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, mother, wife, world), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	7 glad	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 heart	nmod:poss
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glad	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 glad	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 glad	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 glad	cop
7	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 sight	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sight	det
10	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glad	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 world	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 world	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 world	nsubj
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 they	appos
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 world	cop
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 world	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 feared	nsubj
23	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 world	acl:relcl
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 harm	det
25	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 feared	obj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 glad	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 come	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	wife's heart		the sight		glad property	tree rules
2	is	past	mother		the world	now	alone property	tree rules
3	fear	past	wife	some harm				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus
4	come	might	the world				of heart	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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