The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 38

Unhappily he did not dare to come forward, being afraid that he should only be jeered at, or even turned away from the castle on account of his impudence.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: not dare, not come forward, be, jeer, turn away, account · To what, where: Michael, castle, impudence

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 (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	Unhappily	unhappily	ADV	_	5 dare	advmod
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	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 dare	advmod
5	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dare	xcomp
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 afraid	punct
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 afraid	cop
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dare	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 jeered	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 jeered	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 jeered	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 jeered	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 jeered	aux:pass
17	jeered	jeer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 afraid	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	17 jeered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
22	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 afraid	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 castle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 castle	det
26	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 account	case
28	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 castle	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 impudence	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 impudence	nmod:poss
31	impudence	impudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 account	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not dare	past · do-support	Michael			unhappily property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come forward	to-infinitive	Michael not said here			forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	gerund				afraid property	tree rules
4	jeer	should · passive		Michael			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	turn away	participle			the castle on account of Michael's impudence	away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from castle=Source
6	account			Michael's impudence			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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