The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 102

But she told him she dared not do so, at least if she did open the door it must only be a very tiny chink; and Sigurd declared that would do quite well.

Who acts: Helga, door, Sigurd · What happens: tell, do, open, be, declare · To what, where: Sigurd, least, door, tiny chink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, door, Sigurd), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
6	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dared	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 least	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 least	case
12	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 do	obl
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 open	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 open	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 open	aux
16	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 open	obj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 chink	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 chink	aux
21	only	only	ADV	_	26 chink	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 chink	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chink	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 tiny	advmod
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chink	amod
26	chink	chink	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 door	acl:relcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 declared	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 declared	cc
29	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 declared	nsubj
30	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 do	mark
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 declared	xcomp
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 well	advmod
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 do	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Helga		Sigurd			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	past	Helga			least		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	open a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Helga	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	is a	must	door	a tiny chink				tree rules
5	declare speech: other	past	Sigurd					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	do	would	Sigurd not said here				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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