The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 33

‘Oh,’ she answered, ‘I have been sent to get a basketful of strawberries, and I daren’t show my face again at home till I bring them with me.’

Who acts: stepmother, I · What happens: answer, send, get, not dare, not show, bring · To what, where: I, basketful, face, home, dwarfs

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sent	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 sent	aux:pass
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 answered	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 basketful	det
16	basketful	basketful	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 strawberries	case
18	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 basketful	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dare	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dare	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 dare	nsubj
22	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	conj
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 dare	advmod
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 dare	xcomp
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 face	nmod:poss
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 show	obj
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 show	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 home	case
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 show	obl
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 bring	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 bring	nsubj
32	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 show	advcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bring	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 bring	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	stepmother					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send	present · perfect · passive		I				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive		a basketful of strawberries				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basketful=Stimulus
4	not dare	present	I					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not show	infinitive	I not said here	my face	home	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Recipient
6	bring	present	I	dwarfs = dwarf			with me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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 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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