The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 80
But he didn’t dare to send him away, for he feared he might kill him along with his people, and place himself on the throne.
Who acts: King · What happens: not dare, not send away, fear, kill · To what, where: place, King, eye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 dare | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dare | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dare | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dare | advmod |
| 5 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 send | mark |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dare | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 send | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 send | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feared | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 feared | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feared | nsubj |
| 13 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | advcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | aux |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 feared | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 people | nmod:poss |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kill | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 place | cc |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dare | obl |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 place | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 throne | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 throne | det |
| 28 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past · do-support | King | place King on the throne | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not send away | to-infinitive | King not said here | King | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | fear | past | King | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | kill | might | King | eye | along King's people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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