Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 40

The child trembled, and was very much frightened; but Ironside told her not to fear at all.

Who acts: child, Ironside · What happens: tremble, frighten, tell, not fear · To what, where: child, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, Ironside), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree 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	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trembled	nsubj
3	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 frightened	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 frightened	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	aux:pass
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 frightened	advmod
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 trembled	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
12	Ironside	Ironside	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 trembled	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 fear	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fear	mark
17	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 fear	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	tremble	past	the child			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	frighten	past · passive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	tell speech: assert	past	Ironside	child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not fear not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ironside not said here		all	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 40