The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 82
'I dare not,' said she; 'your master will be so angry.'
Who acts: I, girl, master · What happens: not dare, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, girl, master), 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 dare | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dare | nsubj |
| 3 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 dare | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 angry | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 angry | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 angry | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 angry | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 angry | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 angry | advmod |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 angry | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | present | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | future | your master | angry property | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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