The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 81

The cat did not answer--he was afraid that he might let the talisman fall.

Who acts: cat, talisman · What happens: not answer, be, let, fall · To what, where: talisman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, talisman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 answer	advmod
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 afraid	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	cop
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 let	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 let	aux
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 afraid	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 talisman	det
15	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obj
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	the cat			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	cat		afraid property	tree rules
3	let	might	cat	the talisman		tree rules
4	fall	infinitive	the talisman not said here			vn occur-48.3 «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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