The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 43

Tephany did not dare to disobey, but with a heavy heart went down the path to the river.

Who acts: Tephany · What happens: not dare, not disobey, go down · To what, where: path

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany), 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	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	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 disobey	mark
6	disobey	disobey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dare	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 heart	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 heart	det
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heart	amod
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dare	parataxis
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 path	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 path	det
16	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not dare	past · do-support	Tephany			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not disobey	to-infinitive	Tephany not said here			tree rules
3	go down	past		the path	with a heavy heart; to the river result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient path=Extent to river=Result

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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