The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 19

‘Nay!’ she cried, ‘can Christian folk dare to come hither?

Who acts: being · What happens: cry, come · To what, where: Christian folk dare

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (being), 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 cried	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	6 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Nay	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nay	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dare	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 dare	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 dare	aux
10	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dare	amod
11	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dare	compound
12	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 dare	acl
15	hither	hither	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	being	Christian folk dare					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	to-infinitive	being not said here	Christian folk dare not said here				hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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