The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 45

“Dare to lay a finger upon this illustrious Fairy!

What happens: lay · To what, where: finger

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Dare	punct
2	Dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 lay	mark
4	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Dare	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 finger	det
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Fairy	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 Fairy	det
9	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Fairy	amod
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay in a quote	to-infinitive		a finger				upon this illustrious Fairy	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme upon fairy=Destination

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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