Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 174
He did not dare question them too closely.
Who acts: dream · What happens: not dare, not question · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | 4 dare | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dare | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 dare | advmod |
| 4 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dare | xcomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 question | obj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 closely | advmod |
| 8 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 5 question | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past · do-support | dream | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not question speech: other | infinitive | dream not said here | things = thing | closely property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (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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