The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 72

There was no bridge or ferryboat to be seen anywhere, and it was impossible to get over to the other side, for the boldest swimmer would not have dared to brave the fierce current and roaring waters.

Who acts: bridge · What happens: be, see, get, not dare, roar · To what, where: boldest swimmer, waters

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 bridge	det
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 ferryboat	cc
6	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bridge	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 seen	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 seen	aux:pass
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ferryboat	acl
10	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 seen	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 impossible	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 impossible	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 impossible	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 impossible	cop
15	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 impossible	csubj
18	over	over	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 side	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 side	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 side	amod
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 over	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dared	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 dared	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 swimmer	det
26	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 swimmer	amod
27	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dared	nsubj:pass
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 dared	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 dared	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 dared	aux
31	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 get	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 brave	mark
33	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dared	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 current	det
35	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 current	amod
36	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brave	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 roaring	cc
38	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 brave	conj
39	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 roaring	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no bridge or ferryboat		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive · passive	no bridge or ferryboat not said here			anywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
3	is	past	no bridge or ferryboat not said here			impossible property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive				over property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	not dare	would · perfect · passive		the boldest swimmer		brave property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
6	roar	gerund		waters			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme

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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