The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 146

And the old woman soon sent her to bed, for fear the night air might give her an appetite.

Who acts: old woman, night air · What happens: send, give · To what, where: half, bed, appetite

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, night air), 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	_	6 sent	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 sent	advmod
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fear	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 fear	case
12	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 air	compound
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fear	acl:relcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 appetite	det
20	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the old woman	half		bed		soon property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bed=Destination
2	give	might	the night air	a appetite	half				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient appetite=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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