The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 163
‘Make haste and kill all these insolent peacocks who have dared to insult me.’
Who acts: you, insolent peacocks · What happens: make, kill, dare, insult · To what, where: haste, insolent peacocks, me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, insolent peacocks), 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 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kill | cc |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Make | conj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 peacocks | det:predet |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 peacocks | det |
| 8 | insolent | insolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 peacocks | amod |
| 9 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kill | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dared | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dared | aux |
| 12 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 peacocks | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 insult | mark |
| 14 | insult | insult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dared | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 insult | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | all insolent peacocks | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dare | present · perfect | all insolent peacocks | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | insult | to-infinitive | all insolent peacocks not said here | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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