The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 107
The little fellow knew quite well that the lion would not dare to go out without him and his ball for fear of meeting a bear or a snake.
Who acts: little fellow, lion, fear · What happens: know, not dare, not go out, meet · To what, where: bear
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little fellow, lion, fear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 dare | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dare | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 dare | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dare | advmod |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dare | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ball | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ball | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 him | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 fear | case |
| 22 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 meeting | mark |
| 24 | meeting | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 fear | acl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bear | det |
| 26 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meeting | obj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 snake | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 snake | det |
| 29 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bear | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the little fellow | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not dare | would | the lion | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not go out | to-infinitive | the lion not said here | without fellow; for fear; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | meet | gerund | fear not said here | a bear or a snake | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-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 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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