The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 46

But the Goblin was angry that anyone should dare to say such a thing to a grocer who owned the house and sold the best butter.

Who acts: Goblin, anyone, grocer · What happens: be, dare, say, own, sell · To what, where: thing, grocer, house, best butter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goblin, anyone, grocer), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 angry	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Goblin	det
3	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 dare	mark
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 dare	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 dare	aux
9	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 angry	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 dare	xcomp
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 thing	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 grocer	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 grocer	det
17	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 owned	nsubj
19	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grocer	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 owned	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sold	cc
23	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 owned	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 butter	det
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 butter	amod
26	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sold	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Goblin			angry property	tree rules
2	dare	should	anyone				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	anyone not said here	such thing	a grocer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to grocer=Recipient
4	own	past	a grocer	the house			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme
5	sell	past	a grocer not said here	the best butter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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