The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 109
‘How dare you,’ she said, with a wrathful glance, ‘climb into my garden and steal my rampion like a common thief?
Who acts: wife · What happens: dare, say, climb, steal · To what, where: you, garden, rampion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dare | advmod |
| 3 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 dare | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glance | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 glance | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 glance | det |
| 12 | wrathful | wrathful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 glance | amod |
| 13 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 climb | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 climb | punct |
| 16 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 garden | nmod:poss |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climb | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 steal | cc |
| 21 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 climb | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 rampion | nmod:poss |
| 23 | rampion | rampion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steal | obj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 thief | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 thief | det |
| 26 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 thief | amod |
| 27 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steal | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | infinitive | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | climb | infinitive | wife not said here | my garden | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | ||||
| 4 | steal | infinitive | wife not said here | my rampion | like a common thief | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rampion=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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