The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 18
The hyaena dared not disobey, and in a few minutes was scalded to death.
Who acts: hyaena · What happens: not dare, not disobey, scald
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hyaena), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hyaena | det |
| 2 | hyaena | hyaena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 dared | advmod |
| 5 | disobey | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 scalded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 scalded | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 minutes | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 minutes | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 minutes | amod |
| 11 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 scalded | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 scalded | aux:pass |
| 13 | scalded | scald | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dared | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scalded | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past | the hyaena | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not disobey | infinitive | the hyaena not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scald | past · passive | the hyaena not said here | minute | to death result | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: to death=Result |
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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