The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 48

They dared not to go in, but sat themselves down at the door, listening to what their father and mother were saying.

Who acts: brothers, father · What happens: dare, not go in, sit down, listen, say · To what, where: brothers, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, father), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dared	nsubj
2	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 go	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dared	xcomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dared	conj
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 sat	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 listening	punct
16	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 listening	obl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saying	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mother	cc
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	conj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saying	aux
24	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 what	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dare	past	brothers = brother			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go in	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit down	past	brothers = brother not said here	brothers = brother	the door	tree rules
4	listen	gerund	brothers = brother not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past · progressive	brothers's father and mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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