The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 98

The Herd-boy was so taken aback by his words, that he stood trembling before him, and did not dare to explain his presence.

Who acts: words, BOY · What happens: take, stand, tremble, not dare, not explain, word · To what, where: Herd boy, presence

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (words, BOY), 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	4 boy	det
2	Herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Herd	punct
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux:pass
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	aback	aback	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 words	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 words	nmod:poss
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taken	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 stood	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	conj
16	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 stood	xcomp
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 trembling	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dare	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dare	cc
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dare	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 dare	advmod
23	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 explain	mark
25	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dare	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 presence	nmod:poss
27	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 explain	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive	BOY's words	the Herd boy		aback property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination
2	stand	past	BOY				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	tremble	gerund	BOY not said here		before BOY		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
4	not dare	past · do-support					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not explain speech: assert	to-infinitive		BOY's presence			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Topic
6	word		BOY				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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