The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 81
But no one dares to attack him, as he always carries his lance.’
Who acts: one, magician · What happens: dare, attack, carry · To what, where: magician, lance
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, magician), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 dares | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dares | nsubj |
| 4 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 attack | mark |
| 6 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dares | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 attack | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carries | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 carries | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carries | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 carries | advmod |
| 12 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 attack | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dares | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present | no one | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | attack | to-infinitive | no one not said here | magician | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | magician | magician's lance | always property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lance=Theme |
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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