The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 155

‘Will you dare to eat it?’

Who acts: you · What happens: dare, eat · To what, where: hand

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 dare	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dare	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 dare	nsubj
4	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dare	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dare	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	future	you						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	hand					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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