The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 9

‘What!’ she said, ‘do you dare to dispute with me for the prize of beauty, and expect me to endure this insult to my knights?

Who acts: Graciosa, you, me · What happens: say, dare, dispute, expect, endure · To what, where: me, insult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (Graciosa, you, me), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 said	obj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dare	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 dare	punct
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dare	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 dare	nsubj
11	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 dispute	mark
13	dispute	dispute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dare	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 dispute	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 prize	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prize	det
18	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dispute	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 beauty	case
20	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prize	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 expect	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 expect	cc
23	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dare	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 expect	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 endure	mark
26	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 expect	xcomp
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 insult	det
28	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 endure	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 knights	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 knights	nmod:poss
31	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 endure	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Graciosa			tree rules
2	dare	present · do-support	you			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dispute	to-infinitive	you not said here		with me; for the prize of beauty	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent
4	expect	infinitive	you not said here	me		tree rules
5	endure not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here	this insult	to my knights	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme insult=Circumstance

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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