The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 42
‘Nay! do Christian folk dare to come here?’ cried the second Princess.
What happens: do, come, cry · To what, where: Christian folk dare, second Princess
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: 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dare | amod |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dare | compound |
| 7 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dare | acl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 Princess | amod |
| 16 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Christian folk dare | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Christian folk dare not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the second Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
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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