Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 81
I shall not ever dare show my face to my friends.
Who acts: I · What happens: not dare, not show · To what, where: face, friends
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dare | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dare | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dare | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 dare | advmod |
| 5 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dare | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 show | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | shall | I | ever | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not show | infinitive | I not said here | my face | my friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Topic to friend=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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