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title: Unhappily he did not dare to come forward, being afraid that he shou… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Unhappily he did not dare to come forward, being afraid that he should only be jeered at, or even turned away from the castle on account of his impudence. Who acts: Michael. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 38

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Unhappily he did not dare to come forward, being afraid that he should only be jeered at, or even turned away from the castle on account of his impudence.

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**Who acts:** Michael · **What happens:** not dare, not come forward, be, jeer, turn away, account · **To what, where:** Michael, castle, impudence

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:2:38
# text = Unhappily he did not dare to come forward, being afraid that he should only be jeered at, or even turned away from the castle on account of his impudence.
1	Unhappily	unhappily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	jeered	jeer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	impudence	impudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | Michael |  |  |  |  | unhappily *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **come forward** | to-infinitive | Michael *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **jeer** | should · passive |  | Michael |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **turn away** | participle |  |  |  | the castle on account of Michael's impudence |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from castle=Source |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | Michael's impudence |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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