The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 58

‘Audacious villains!’ says the Knight of the Glen, ‘how dare you attempt so bold an action as to steal my steed?

Who acts: Audacious villains, you · What happens: say, attempt, steal · To what, where: Knight, bold action, steed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Audacious villains, you), 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 villains	punct
2	Audacious	audacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 villains	amod
3	villains	villain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 says	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 villains	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 villains	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Knight	det
8	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Glen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Glen	det
11	Glen	Glen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Knight	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 attempt	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 attempt	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 attempt	advmod
15	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attempt	compound
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 attempt	nsubj
17	attempt	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	parataxis
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 bold	advmod
19	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 action	amod
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 action	det
21	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attempt	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 steal	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 steal	mark
24	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 attempt	advcl
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 steed	nmod:poss
26	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 steal	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Audacious villains	the Knight of the Glen	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knight=Topic
2	attempt	present	you	a bold action	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Eventuality
3	steal	to-infinitive	you not said here	my steed	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location steed=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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