The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 28

He dared not tell them the truth, lest they should laugh at him, so he only said that he should like some bread baked by the kitchen girl in the distant farm.

Who acts: son, parents · What happens: not dare, not tell, laugh, say, like, bake · To what, where: truth, parents, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, parents), 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	2 dared	nsubj
2	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 dared	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dared	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laugh	punct
9	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	12 laugh	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laugh	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 laugh	aux
12	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laugh	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dared	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 like	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 like	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 like	aux
23	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 bread	det
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 like	obj
26	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 bread	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 girl	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girl	det
29	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 girl	compound
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 baked	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 farm	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 farm	det
33	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 farm	amod
34	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 girl	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not dare	past	son				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert	infinitive	son not said here	the truth	parents = parent		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient truth=Topic
3	laugh	should	parents = parent			at son	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	like	should	son	some bread			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bread=Theme
6	bake	participle		some bread not said here		by the kitchen girl in the distant farm	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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