Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 18
"Will you dare to contradict me?" said the step-mother. "
Who acts: you, step mother · What happens: dare, contradict, say · To what, where: step mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, step mother), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dare | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 dare | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 dare | nsubj |
| 4 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 contradict | mark |
| 6 | contradict | contradict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dare | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 contradict | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dare | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dare | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dare | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mother | det |
| 12 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 step | punct |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dare | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare in a quote | future | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | contradict in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the step mother = mother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the step mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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