The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 74
‘Rash youth that thou art, darest thou speak thus to Arthur?
Who acts: thou · What happens: dare, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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 youth | punct |
| 2 | Rash | rash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 youth | amod |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 art | obj |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 art | nsubj |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 youth | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 darest | punct |
| 8 | darest | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 art | conj |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 speak | nsubj |
| 10 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 darest | xcomp |
| 11 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 speak | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Arthur | case |
| 13 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thus | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 youth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | thou | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «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 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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