The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 66

When they retired to rest the Princess feared lest Jack should kiss her because of his prickles, but he told her not to be alarmed as no harm should befall her.

Who acts: arms, Jack, harm · What happens: retire, rest, fear, kiss, tell, not alarm · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, Jack, harm), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 retired	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 retired	nsubj
3	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 feared	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rest	mark
5	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 retired	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rest	obj
8	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	12 kiss	mark
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 kiss	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kiss	aux
12	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 feared	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kiss	obj
14	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	17 prickles	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 because	fixed
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 prickles	nmod:poss
17	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kiss	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 feared	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 alarmed	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	26 alarmed	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 alarmed	aux:pass
26	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 told	ccomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 befall	mark
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 harm	det
29	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 befall	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 befall	aux
31	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 alarmed	advcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 befall	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	retire	past	arms = arm				tree rules
2	rest	to-infinitive	arms = arm not said here	the Princess			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme
3	fear	past					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	kiss	should	Jack	Princess		because Jack's prickles	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	Jack		Princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not alarm not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
7	befall	should	no harm	Princess			tree rules

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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