The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 183

‘What!’ he cried, ‘have the two rascals who are my prisoners dared to play me such a trick as this?

Who acts: sire, two rascals · What happens: cry, have, be, play · To what, where: two rascals, trick, 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 (sire, two rascals), 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 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 What	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rascals	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 rascals	nummod
12	rascals	rascal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 dared	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dared	cop
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 prisoners	nmod:poss
16	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dared	nsubj
17	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rascals	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 play	mark
19	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dared	xcomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 play	obj
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 trick	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 trick	det
23	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 play	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 play	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	sire				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	infinitive	sire not said here	the two rascals			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rascal=Patient
3	is	present	the two rascals			dare property	tree rules
4	play	to-infinitive	the two rascals not said here	such trick	me	as this	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary trick=Theme

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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