The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 18

This forest was so gloomy, and so full of lions, tigers, bears and wolves, that nobody dared pass through it even by daylight, and here they set down the unhappy Princess in the middle of the black night, and left her in spite of all her tears and entreaties.

Who acts: forest, nobody, wolves · What happens: be, dare, pass, set down, leave, spite · To what, where: forest, unhappy Princess, middle, Princess, spite, tears

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, nobody, wolves), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 forest	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gloomy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gloomy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 gloomy	advmod
5	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 full	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 full	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 full	advmod
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gloomy	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 lions	case
11	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tigers	punct
13	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lions	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bears	punct
15	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lions	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wolves	cc
17	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lions	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dared	punct
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 nobody	det
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 dared	nsubj
21	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gloomy	parataxis
22	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dared	ccomp
23	through	through	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pass	obl
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 daylight	advmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 daylight	case
27	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pass	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 set	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 set	nsubj
32	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gloomy	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 set	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Princess	det
35	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Princess	amod
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 set	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 middle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 middle	det
39	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 night	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 night	det
42	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 night	amod
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 middle	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 left	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 left	cc
46	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gloomy	parataxis
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 left	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 spite	case
49	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 left	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 tears	case
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 tears	det:predet
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 tears	nmod:poss
53	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 spite	nmod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 entreaties	cc
55	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 tears	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gloomy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this forest			gloomy property	tree rules
2	be		this forest not said here			of lions and tigers and bears and wolves	tree rules
3	dare	past	nobody				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pass	present	nobody not said here		forest	by daylight	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location
5	set down	past	wolves = wolf	the unhappy Princess	the middle of the black night; here		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme in middle=Destination
6	leave	past		Princess	spite of Princess's tears and entreaties		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in spite=Location
7	spite			Princess's tears and entreaties			nom spite «feeling 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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