The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 115
The King dared not trust himself to speak to her, but the following night he kept watch again.
Who acts: King · What happens: not dare, not trust, speak, follow, keep, watch · To what, where: King, roe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 dared | advmod |
| 5 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 trust | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 speak | mark |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trust | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 speak | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 kept | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 14 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dared | conj |
| 18 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kept | xcomp |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 watch | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past | the King | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not trust | infinitive | the King not said here | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | the King not said here | roe | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | keep | past | King | night | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | watch | infinitive | King not said here | again | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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