The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 94
Next day at the same time the queen again rode out into the forest; but on this occasion the spirits did not dare to come so near her.
Who acts: queen, spirits · What happens: ride out, not dare, not come · To what, where: forest, occasion
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, spirits), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 rode | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 dare | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 dare | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 occasion | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 occasion | det |
| 19 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dare | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spirits | det |
| 21 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dare | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dare | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 dare | advmod |
| 24 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rode | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 dare | xcomp |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | near | near | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 come | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride out | past | the queen | the forest | again; day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not dare | past · do-support | the spirits | this occasion | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not come | to-infinitive | the spirits not said here | near Spirit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location |
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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