The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 77

He wept and lamented, and for many days he did not dare to go home again, for he was afraid that the old woman would slay him outright.

Who acts: man, old woman · What happens: weep, lament, not dare, not go, be, slay · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, old woman), 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 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lamented	cc
4	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dare	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dare	cc
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dare	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dare	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dare	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 dare	advmod
13	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wept	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dare	xcomp
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 afraid	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 afraid	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	cop
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 go	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 slay	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woman	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 slay	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 slay	aux
28	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 afraid	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 slay	obj
30	outright	outright	ADV	_	28 slay	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	man				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lament	past	man not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	not dare	past · do-support	man		day		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not go	to-infinitive	man not said here		again	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	man			afraid property	tree rules
6	slay	would	the old woman	man		outright property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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