The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 7

My rich uncle has died, leaving me money and goods in plenty, so that I dare to present myself to your mother as a suitor for your hand.

Who acts: rich uncle, I · What happens: die, leave, dare, present · To what, where: me, myself, mother

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich uncle, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 uncle	amod
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leaving	punct
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 died	advcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 leaving	obj
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaving	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 goods	cc
11	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 money	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 plenty	case
13	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dare	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 dare	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 dare	nsubj
18	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 died	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 present	mark
20	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dare	xcomp
21	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 present	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 mother	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 present	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 suitor	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 suitor	det
27	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 present	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 present	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	die	present · perfect	My rich uncle				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	leave	gerund	My rich uncle not said here	me			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme money=Attribute
3	dare	present	I				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	present	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself	your mother	as a suitor; for your hand	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to mother=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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