The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 99
‘But I dare not go to the Governor and say this.
Who acts: I · What happens: not go, say · To what, where: Governor, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 go | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | dare | dare | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Governor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Governor | det |
| 9 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 say | cc |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 say | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | dare | I | the Governor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to governor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=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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