The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 54

Not the bravest sailor in the whole village dared venture so far out to sea as Uraschimataro, and many a time the neighbours used to shake their heads and say to his parents, ‘If your son goes on being so rash, one day he will try his luck once too often, and the waves will end by swallowing him up.’

Who acts: bravest sailor, neighbours, son, waves · What happens: dare, use, shake, say, go, be · To what, where: venture, heads, parents, rash, luck, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bravest sailor, neighbours, son, waves), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sailor	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sailor	det
3	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sailor	amod
4	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dared	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailor	nmod
9	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dared	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 out	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 out	advmod
13	out	out	ADV	_	9 dared	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 sea	case
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 out	obl
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 Uraschimataro	case
17	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dared	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 used	cc
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 used	obl:unmarked
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 neighbours	det
24	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 used	nsubj
25	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dared	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 shake	mark
27	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 used	xcomp
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 heads	nmod:poss
29	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shake	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 say	cc
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 shake	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 parents	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 parents	nmod:poss
34	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 say	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 goes	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 goes	punct
37	If	if	SCONJ	_	40 goes	mark
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 son	nmod:poss
39	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 goes	nsubj
40	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 used	parataxis
41	on	on	ADP	_	44 rash	case
42	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 rash	cop
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 rash	advmod
44	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 goes	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 try	punct
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 day	nummod
47	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 try	obl:unmarked
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 try	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 try	aux
50	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 goes	conj
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 luck	nmod:poss
52	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 try	obj
53	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	50 try	advmod
54	too	too	ADV	_	55 often	advmod
55	often	often	ADV	_	50 try	advmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 end	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 end	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 waves	det
59	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 end	nsubj
60	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 end	aux
61	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 dared	parataxis
62	by	by	SCONJ	_	63 swallowing	mark
63	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	61 end	advcl
64	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 swallowing	obj
65	up	up	ADP	_	63 swallowing	compound:prt
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	61 end	punct
67	’	'	PUNCT	_	61 end	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	past	the bravest sailor in the whole village	venture				as Uraschimataro; out property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venture=Recipient
2	use	past	the neighbours				time		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shake	to-infinitive	the neighbours not said here	Uraschimataro's heads					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	the neighbours not said here		sailor's parents				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to parent=Recipient
5	go a condition, not said to happen	present	your son						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	gerund				rash			tree rules
7	try	future	son	son's luck			day	often, once property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality
8	end	future	the waves						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	swallow up	gerund	the waves not said here	son					vn gobble-39.3 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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