The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 69
And Ian dared say no more, and hastened down to the waste.
Who acts: Ian · What happens: dare, say, hasten down · To what, where: more, waste · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dared | cc |
| 2 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hastened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hastened | cc |
| 9 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dared | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 hastened | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 waste | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waste | det |
| 13 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hastened | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | Ian | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Ian not said here | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hasten down | participle | Ian not said here | the waste | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to waste=Destination |
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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