The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 66

‘Don’t you think that a desperate errand?’ said the King, ‘seeing they are so dangerous, and no one has ever yet ventured to go against them?’

Who acts: you, desperate errand, King · What happens: not do, think, say, see, be, venture · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (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, desperate errand, King), 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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	advcl
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Do	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ventured	advcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 errand	det
8	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 errand	amod
9	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 errand	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 errand	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
17	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dangerous	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dangerous	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 dangerous	advmod
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seeing	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 has	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 has	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 has	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ventured	aux
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 has	advmod
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 ventured	advmod
29	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ventured	xcomp
32	against	against	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 ventured	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	a desperate errand			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	see	gerund	a desperate errand not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	King		dangerous property	tree rules
6	venture	present · perfect		yet		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	go	to-infinitive			against King	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against they=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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