The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 41
The father did not dare to sit in this gorgeous coach, but went to the palace on foot.
Who acts: father · What happens: not dare, not sit, go · To what, where: gorgeous coach, foot
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 sit | mark |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dare | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 coach | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 coach | det |
| 10 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coach | amod |
| 11 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dare | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past · do-support | the father | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not sit | to-infinitive | the father not said here | this gorgeous coach | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coach=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | foot | to the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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