The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 26
But he did not dare to bring back the baby, lest the trick should be found out.
Who acts: king · What happens: not dare, not bring back, find out · To what, where: baby, trick
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 (king), 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 | _ | 5 dare | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dare | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dare | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dare | advmod |
| 5 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dare | xcomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 baby | det |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 12 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 17 found | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trick | det |
| 14 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 found | aux:pass |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bring | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 found | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past · do-support | king | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not bring back | to-infinitive | king not said here | the baby | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find out | should · passive | the trick | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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