The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 118
‘How dare you play me such a trick?’ shrieked the king in a rage.
What happens: dare, play, shriek · To what, where: you, trick, me, king, rage
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. 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 | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dare | advmod |
| 3 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 shrieked | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 dare | obj |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dare | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 play | obj |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 trick | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trick | det |
| 9 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 12 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shrieked | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 rage | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rage | det |
| 17 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shrieked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | infinitive | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | play | infinitive | such trick | me | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary trick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shriek | past | the king | a rage | 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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