The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 112

Now, though Isuro had the leaves about him, he did not dare to produce them at the last moment lest the baboon should guess why he had stayed behind.

Who acts: Isuro, Gudu, baboon · What happens: have, not dare, not produce, guess, stay · To what, where: leaves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isuro, Gudu, baboon), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 dare	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dare	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaves	det
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leaves	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dare	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dare	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 dare	advmod
14	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 produce	mark
16	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dare	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 produce	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 moment	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moment	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moment	amod
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 produce	obl
22	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	26 guess	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 baboon	det
24	baboon	baboon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 guess	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 guess	aux
26	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 produce	advcl
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 stayed	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stayed	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stayed	aux
30	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 guess	ccomp
31	behind	behind	ADV	_	30 stayed	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Isuro	the leaves		about Gudu	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	not dare	past · do-support	Gudu		now		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not produce	to-infinitive	Gudu not said here	leaves = leaf	moment		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result
4	guess	should	the baboon				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	stay	past · perfect	Gudu			behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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