The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 132
But he dared not linger, and pushed on.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: not dare, not linger, push on
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (Petru), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 dared | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 | linger | linger | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pushed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pushed | cc |
| 8 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dared | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 pushed | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past | Petru | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not linger | infinitive | Petru not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | push on | participle | Petru not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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