The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 7
He dared not answer, but only squeezed the Princess’s hand until he really hurt her little finger, but she did not cry out.
Who acts: Ambassador, Princess · What happens: not dare, not answer, squeeze, hurt, not cry out · To what, where: hand, little finger
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Ambassador, Princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dared | nsubj |
| 2 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 dared | advmod |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dared | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 squeezed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 squeezed | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 squeezed | advmod |
| 8 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dared | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 squeezed | obj |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 hurt | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hurt | nsubj |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 hurt | advmod |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 squeezed | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 finger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 finger | amod |
| 19 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurt | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cry | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 cry | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cry | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cry | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 cry | advmod |
| 25 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dared | parataxis |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 cry | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past | Ambassador | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | infinitive | Ambassador not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | squeeze | past | Ambassador not said here | the Princess's hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hurt | past | Ambassador | Princess's little finger | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not cry out speech: express | past · do-support | Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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