The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 68

‘Ah! how dared you think to win my love by separating me from my beloved Florimond, and in my presence cutting off that dear hand that even you should have feared and honoured?’

Who acts: you, presence, my · What happens: dare, think, win, separate, cut off, fear · To what, where: love, me, dear hand, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, presence, my), 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 dared	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 dared	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dared	advmod
5	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dared	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 win	mark
9	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	xcomp
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 love	nmod:poss
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 separating	mark
13	separating	separate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 win	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 separating	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 Florimond	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Florimond	nmod:poss
17	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Florimond	amod
18	Florimond	Florimond	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 separating	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 presence	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 presence	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 presence	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 presence	nmod:poss
23	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dared	parataxis
24	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 presence	acl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 cutting	compound:prt
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 hand	det
27	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hand	amod
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cutting	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 feared	obj
30	even	even	ADV	_	34 feared	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 feared	nsubj:pass
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 feared	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 feared	aux
34	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hand	acl:relcl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 honoured	cc
36	honoured	honour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 feared	conj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 presence	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 presence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dare	participle				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	win	to-infinitive	you not said here	my love		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality
4	separate	gerund	you not said here	me	from my beloved Florimond	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient from florimond=Co-Patient
5	cut off	gerund	my presence not said here	that dear hand		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality
6	fear	should · perfect · passive		you		tree rules
7	honour	participle				tree rules
8	love		my			nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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