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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 49

All night long Geirald walked about his room, not daring to face the fight that lay in front of him, and trying with all his might to discover some means of escaping it.

Who acts: Geirald, fight, some · What happens: walk, not dare, not face, lie, try, discover · To what, where: fight, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Geirald, fight, some), 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

detobl:unmarkedadvmodnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctadvmodadvclmarkxcompdetobjnsubjacl:relclcaseoblcasenmodpunctccadvclmarkdet:predetnmod:possauxmarkxcompnsubjccompmarkccompobjpunctrootAllDETnightNOUNlongADVGeiraldPROPNwalkedVERBaboutADPhisPRONroomNOUN,PUNCTnotPARTdaringVERBtoPARTfaceVERBtheDETfightNOUNthatPRONlayVERBinADPfrontNOUNofADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJtryingVERBwithSCONJallDEThisPRONmightAUXtoPARTdiscoverVERBsomeDETmeansVERBofSCONJescapingVERBitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AllallDETPronType=Tot2 nightdet
2nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing5 walkedobl:unmarked
3longlongADVDegree=Pos5 walkedadvmod
4GeiraldGeiraldPROPNNumber=Sing5 walkednsubj
5walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6aboutaboutADP_8 roomcase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 roomnmod:poss
8roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing5 walkedobl
9,,PUNCT_11 daringpunct
10notnotPARTPolarity=Neg11 daringadvmod
11daringdareVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 walkedadvcl
12totoPART_13 facemark
13facefaceVERBVerbForm=Inf11 daringxcomp
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 fightdet
15fightfightNOUNNumber=Sing13 faceobj
16thatthatPRONPronType=Rel17 laynsubj
17laylieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 fightacl:relcl
18ininADP_19 frontcase
19frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing17 layobl
20ofofADP_21 himcase
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 frontnmod
22,,PUNCT_24 tryingpunct
23andandCCONJ_24 tryingcc
24tryingtryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 walkedadvcl
25withwithSCONJ_30 discovermark
26allallDETPronType=Tot30 discoverdet:predet
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 discovernmod:poss
28mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin30 discoveraux
29totoPART_30 discovermark
30discoverdiscoverVERBVerbForm=Inf24 tryingxcomp
31somesomeDETPronType=Ind32 meansnsubj
32meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 discoverccomp
33ofofSCONJ_34 escapingmark
34escapingescapeVERBVerbForm=Ger32 meansccomp
35ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 escapingobj
36..PUNCT_5 walkedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1walkpastGeiraldnightabout Geirald's room; long propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Trajectory
2not daregerundGeirald not said herevn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3not faceto-infinitiveGeirald not said herethe fightvn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fight=Destination
4liepastthe fightfront of Geiraldvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
5trygerundGeirald not said herevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6discover not said to happenmightGeirald not said herevn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7meanpresentsomevn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8escapegerundfightvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Initial_Location

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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