English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 26

As the wind was very high, for fear of being blown away, she tied him to a thistle with a piece of fine thread.

Who acts: mother · What happens: be, blow away, tie · To what, where: fear, Tom

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 wind	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 high	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fear	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 fear	case
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	conj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 blown	mark
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 blown	aux:pass
12	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fear	acl:relcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 blown	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tied	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tied	nsubj
16	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 high	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tied	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 thistle	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thistle	det
20	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tied	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 piece	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 piece	det
23	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tied	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 thread	case
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thread	amod
26	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 piece	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			as the wind; high property	tree rules
2	blow away	gerund · passive		fear not said here	away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»
3	tie	past	mother	Tom	to a thistle; with a piece of fine thread	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient to thistle=Co-Patient with piece=Instrument

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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