Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 14
"There is nothing that dares to dis-o-bey you, O king!" they said. "
Who acts: nothing, things · What happens: be, dare, dis, say · To what, where: bey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, things), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dares | nsubj |
| 6 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dis | mark |
| 8 | dis | dis | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dares | xcomp |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bey | punct |
| 10 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 12 bey | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 o | punct |
| 12 | bey | bey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dis | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bey | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 15 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 16 king | discourse |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dare in a quote | present | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | dis in a quote | to-infinitive | bey | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | things = thing | 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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