The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 173
She found him the best partner in the world, but he did not dare to speak a single word to her.
Who acts: bouquet, Michael · What happens: find, not dare, not speak · To what, where: Michael, single word, bouquet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bouquet, Michael), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 partner | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 partner | amod |
| 6 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 partner | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dare | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 dare | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dare | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dare | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 dare | advmod |
| 15 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 speak | mark |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dare | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 word | amod |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speak | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 speak | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | bouquet | Michael | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme partner=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not dare | past · do-support | Michael | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Michael not said here | a single word | bouquet | tree rules |
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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