The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 102
He would have lingered a moment, for he thought she looked sad, but dared not do so, for fear of the old man’s anger.
Who acts: door, girl, old man · What happens: linger, think, look, do, fear, anger · To what, where: anger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, girl, old man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lingered | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lingered | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lingered | aux |
| 4 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lingered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 thought | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lingered | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looked | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 16 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 dared | advmod |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 do | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fear | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 fear | case |
| 22 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 anger | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 anger | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 man | case |
| 28 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fear | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lingered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | linger | would · perfect | door | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | door | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | girl | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | past | for fear of the old man's anger | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fear | the old man's anger | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | anger | the old man | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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