The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 20

The whirr and confusion from all the serpent-houses were so great that the youth did not dare to advance one step, but remained where he was, watching intently all that went on; but at last he began to take courage, and moved on softly step by step.

Who acts: whirr, youth, that · What happens: be, not dare, not advance, remain, watch, go on · To what, where: one step, last, courage

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whirr, youth, that), 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 whirr	det
2	whirr	whirr	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 great	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 confusion	cc
4	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whirr	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 houses	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 houses	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 houses	det
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 houses	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 serpent	punct
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 confusion	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 great	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 great	advmod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 dare	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youth	det
16	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dare	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dare	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 dare	advmod
19	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 great	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 advance	mark
21	advance	advance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dare	xcomp
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 step	nummod
23	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 advance	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remained	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 remained	cc
26	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 great	conj
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 watching	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 watching	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 watching	aux
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 watching	punct
31	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 remained	xcomp
32	intently	intently	ADV	_	31 watching	advmod
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 that	det:predet
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 watching	ccomp
36	on	on	ADV	_	35 went	advmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 began	cc
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 last	case
40	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 began	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 began	nsubj
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 great	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	44 take	mark
44	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 began	xcomp
45	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 take	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 moved	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 moved	cc
48	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 began	conj
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 step	case
50	softly	softly	ADV	_	51 step	advmod
51	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 moved	obl
52	by	by	ADP	_	53 step	case
53	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 moved	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whirr and confusion from all serpent houses			great property	tree rules
2	not dare	past · do-support	the youth				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not advance	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	one step			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer step=Patient
4	remain	past	the whirr and confusion from all serpent houses not said here				tree rules
5	watch	past · progressive	youth			intently property	tree rules
6	go on	past	that				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	begin	past	youth		last		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	take	to-infinitive	youth not said here	courage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
9	move	participle	youth not said here			on step; by step	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on step=Source by step=Trajectory

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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