The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 100

I dare say they will do quite well!”

Who acts: I, bridges · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bridges), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	dare	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 do	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	dare	I						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	future	bridges = bridge					well property	vn act-114-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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