The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 77
For some minutes the silence and darkness so appalled him that he stood where he was, not daring to advance one step.
Who acts: silence, child · What happens: appal, stand, not dare, not advance · To what, where: child, one step
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, child), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 minutes | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 minutes | det |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appalled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 silence | det |
| 5 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appalled | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 darkness | cc |
| 7 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 silence | conj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 appalled | advmod |
| 9 | appalled | appal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 appalled | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 stood | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appalled | advcl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 daring | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 daring | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 daring | aux |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 daring | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 daring | advmod |
| 19 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 advance | mark |
| 21 | advance | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 daring | xcomp |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 step | nummod |
| 23 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 advance | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appal | past | the silence and darkness | child | minute | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | child | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not dare | past · progressive | child | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not advance | to-infinitive | child not said here | one step | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer step=Patient |
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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