The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 39
But the poor Princess wept bitterly, though she did not dare to confide her grief to anyone.
Who acts: poor Princess, Princess · What happens: weep, not dare, not confide · To what, where: grief, anyone
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Princess, Princess), 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 wept | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Princess | amod |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wept | nsubj |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 5 wept | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dare | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 dare | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dare | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dare | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dare | advmod |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wept | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 confide | mark |
| 14 | confide | confide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dare | xcomp |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 grief | nmod:poss |
| 16 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 confide | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 anyone | case |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 confide | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the poor Princess | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not dare | past · do-support | Princess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not confide speech: other | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess's grief | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent grief=Topic to anyone=Recipient |
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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