Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 3

She was afraid that if he left her house and began wandering about by himself some accident might happen to him, and she would be left desolate in her old age.

Who acts: Mother, Boy, accident · What happens: be, leave, begin, wonder, happen, desolate · To what, where: house, Boy, Mother, old age · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, Boy, accident), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree 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 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 left	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 left	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	conj
12	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 began	xcomp
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 wandering	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 wandering	obl
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 accident	det
17	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 happen	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	aux
19	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wandering	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 happen	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 left	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 left	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 left	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 left	aux:pass
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 afraid	parataxis
28	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 left	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 age	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 age	nmod:poss
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 age	amod
32	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 desolate	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mother				afraid property	tree rules
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	Boy	Mother's house				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	begin	past	Boy not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Boy not said here				by Boy; about property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	happen	might	some accident		Boy			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	would · passive		Mother				tree rules
7	desolate	infinitive	Mother not said here			in Mother's old age		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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 3

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 3