The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 84

He did not dare to seek too near Plouhinec, lest somebody who knew the story might guess what he was doing, so he went away further towards the south, where the air was softer and the plants are always green.

Who acts: beggar, somebody, air, plants · What happens: not dare, not seek, know, guess, do, go away · To what, where: Plouhinec, story

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, somebody, air, plants), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dare	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dare	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 dare	advmod
4	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 seek	mark
6	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dare	xcomp
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 seek	advmod
8	near	near	ADP	_	9 Plouhinec	case
9	Plouhinec	Plouhinec	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seek	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 somebody	punct
11	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	12 somebody	case
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 guess	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 somebody	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 story	det
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knew	obj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 guess	aux
18	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seek	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 guess	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 doing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 doing	aux
22	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 what	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 south	advcl
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	further	further	ADV	_	31 south	advmod
29	towards	towards	ADP	_	31 south	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 south	det
31	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dare	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 softer	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 softer	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 softer	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 softer	cop
37	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 south	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 green	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 plants	det
40	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 green	nsubj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 green	cop
42	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	43 green	advmod
43	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 softer	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not dare	past · do-support	beggar				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not seek	to-infinitive	beggar not said here		Plouhinec		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent near plouhinec=Location
3	know	past		the story			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	guess	might	somebody				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
5	do	past · progressive	beggar				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go away	past	beggar			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	the air			soft property	tree rules
8	is	present	the plants			always, green property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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