The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 76
Then, fearing to meet his enemy, he stole out of the castle.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: fear, meet, steal · To what, where: enemy, castle
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 stole | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stole | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 meet | mark |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fearing | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meet | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fearing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stole | nsubj |
| 10 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stole | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | dragon not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | dragon not said here | dragon's enemy | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | dragon | the castle | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out castle=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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