The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 51

“Wretched little monster!” said the King; “do you dare to call yourself the Princess’s lover, and to lay claim to such a treasure?

Who acts: Wretched little monster, you · What happens: say, dare, call, lay · To what, where: yourself, claim · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Wretched little monster, 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 monster	punct
2	Wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monster	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monster	amod
4	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 monster	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 monster	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 dare	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 dare	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dare	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 dare	nsubj
14	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 call	mark
16	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dare	xcomp
17	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 call	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Princess	det
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lover	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Princess	case
21	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 call	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lay	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 lay	mark
25	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dare	conj
26	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 treasure	case
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 treasure	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 treasure	det
30	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Wretched little monster			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dare in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	call in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	yourself		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme lover=Result
4	lay in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	claim	to such treasure	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Result

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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