The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 78
‘Do you dare to insult me in my own court?’ cried the king.
Who acts: you · What happens: dare, insult, cry · To what, where: me, own court, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 dare | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dare | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 dare | nsubj |
| 4 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 insult | mark |
| 6 | insult | insult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dare | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 insult | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 court | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 court | amod |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 insult | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dare | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dare | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present · do-support | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | insult | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | my own court | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the king | tree rules |
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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