The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 56
‘What!’ said the Princess, ‘do they dare to kill that beautiful creature and eat it?
Who acts: Princess · What happens: say, dare, kill, eat · To what, where: beautiful creature, creature · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dare | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 dare | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dare | aux |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dare | nsubj |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dare | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 creature | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creature | amod |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kill | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eat | cc |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dare | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | dare | present · do-support | Princess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | that beautiful creature | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | Princess not said here | creature | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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