The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 20

She quite expected to rid herself of the tailor in this way, for the bear had never left anyone alive who had once come within reach of his claws.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: expect, rid, not leave, come · To what, where: Princess, way, bear

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 expected	nsubj
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	3 expected	advmod
3	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rid	mark
5	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 expected	xcomp
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 rid	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tailor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tailor	det
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rid	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 left	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 left	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bear	det
16	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 left	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 left	advmod
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 expected	conj
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 left	obj
21	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 anyone	amod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 come	advmod
25	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 anyone	acl:relcl
26	within	within	ADP	_	27 reach	case
27	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 claws	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 claws	nmod:poss
30	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 reach	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect	past	Princess				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	rid not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	Princess	this way	of the tailor	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Source of tailor=Theme
3	not leave	past · perfect · passive		the bear			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme anyone=Attribute
4	come	past · perfect				within reach of needle's claws; once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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