The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 20

“We are not so foolish as to risk our lives,” they said to each other proudly.

Who acts: We, lives · What happens: not be, risk, say · To what, where: lives, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, lives), 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	_	6 foolish	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 foolish	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 foolish	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 foolish	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 foolish	advmod
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 risk	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 risk	mark
9	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 foolish	advcl
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lives	nmod:poss
11	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 risk	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 foolish	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 foolish	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	15 said	obl
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 each	fixed
19	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	We			foolish property	tree rules
2	risk in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	our lives			vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot
3	say speech: assert	past	lives = life		each	proudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=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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