The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 23

‘I dare not,’ said the other, ‘for if I were to put my hat on straight, there would come such a frost that the very birds in the sky would freeze and fall dead on the earth.’

Who acts: I, birds · What happens: not dare, say, put, come, freeze, fall · To what, where: other, hat, straight, frost, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, birds), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dare	nsubj
3	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 dare	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dare	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 put	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 put	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 put	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 put	aux
16	to	to	PART	_	17 put	mark
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	advcl
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hat	nmod:poss
19	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 straight	case
21	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 come	expl
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dare	parataxis
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 frost	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 frost	det
28	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 freeze	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 birds	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 birds	advmod
32	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 freeze	nsubj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 sky	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sky	det
35	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 birds	nmod
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 freeze	aux
37	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fall	cc
39	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 freeze	conj
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fall	xcomp
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 earth	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 earth	det
43	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fall	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dare	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not dare	present	I				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	I not said here	the other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic
3	put a condition, not said to happen	past	I	my hat	straight		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme on straight=Destination
4	come	would		such frost	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frost=Theme
5	freeze	would	the birds in the sky				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fall	infinitive	the birds in the sky not said here		the earth	dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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