Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 82

But he did not venture to give him his dismissal, for he dreaded lest he should strike him and all his people dead, and place himself on the royal throne.

Who acts: king · What happens: not venture, give, dread, strike, dismiss · To what, where: place, dismissal, king, eye

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	_	5 venture	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 venture	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 venture	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 venture	advmod
5	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 venture	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dismissal	nmod:poss
10	dismissal	dismissal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dreaded	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 dreaded	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dreaded	nsubj
14	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 venture	parataxis
15	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	18 strike	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 strike	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 strike	aux
18	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dreaded	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 strike	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dead	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 people	det:predet
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 people	nmod:poss
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dead	nsubj
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 strike	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 place	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 place	cc
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 venture	obl
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 place	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 throne	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 throne	det
31	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 throne	amod
32	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 place	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 venture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not venture	past · do-support	king	place king on the royal throne		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's dismissal	king	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dismissal=Theme
3	dread	past	king			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	strike	should	king	eye		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
5	dismiss		king			nom dismissal «act transitive»: poss=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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