The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 74
“We did not dare to let her mother know of our love.
Who acts: We, our · What happens: not dare, not let, love · To what, where: mother know, arrow
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, our), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dare | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dare | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dare | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dare | advmod |
| 5 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dare | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | compound |
| 10 | know | know | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 love | nmod:poss |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare in a quote | past · do-support | We | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not let in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | mother know of our love | arrow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient know=Theme | |||
| 3 | love in a quote | our | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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