The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 54
“How dare you steal my water?” cried the head.
Who acts: you, head · What happens: steal, cry · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, head), 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 steal | advmod |
| 3 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steal | compound |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 steal | nsubj |
| 5 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | advcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 water | nmod:poss |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steal | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 steal | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 steal | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal in a quote | present | you | my water | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the head | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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: «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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