The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 32

The Captain of the Guard was very much astonished when he heard this barbarous order, but he did not dare to contradict the King for fear of making him still more angry, or causing him to send someone else, so he answered that he would fetch the Princess and do as the King had said.

Who acts: Captain, eldest, fear, King · What happens: be, hear, not dare, not contradict, make, cause · To what, where: barbarous order, King, someone, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain, eldest, fear, King), 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	2 Captain	det
2	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 astonished	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Guard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Guard	det
5	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Captain	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 astonished	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 astonished	advmod
9	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 astonished	advcl
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 order	det
14	barbarous	barbarous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 order	amod
15	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dare	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 dare	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dare	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dare	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 dare	advmod
21	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 astonished	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 contradict	mark
23	contradict	contradict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dare	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 contradict	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 fear	case
27	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 contradict	obl
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 making	mark
29	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 fear	acl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 making	obj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 angry	advmod
33	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 making	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 causing	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 causing	cc
36	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 dare	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 causing	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 send	mark
39	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 causing	advcl
40	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 send	obj
41	else	else	ADV	_	40 someone	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 answered	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	45 answered	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 answered	nsubj
45	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 astonished	parataxis
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 fetch	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fetch	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 fetch	aux
49	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 answered	ccomp
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Princess	det
51	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fetch	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 said	cc
53	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 said	aux
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 said	mark
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 King	det
56	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 said	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 said	aux
58	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 fetch	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Captain of the Guard		astonished property	tree rules
2	hear	past	eldest = eld	this barbarous order		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus
3	not dare	past · do-support	eldest = eld			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not contradict	to-infinitive	eldest = eld not said here	the King	for fear	tree rules
5	make	gerund	fear not said here	king	angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
6	cause	gerund	eldest = eld not said here	king		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=Patient
7	send	to-infinitive	eldest = eld not said here	someone		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
8	answer speech: assert	past	eldest = eld			tree rules
9	fetch	would	eldest = eld	the Princess		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
10	say speech: assert	present · perfect · do-support	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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