The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 102
Who dares to use force in my palace?
What happens: dare, use · To what, where: force, palace
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 dares | nsubj |
| 2 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 use | mark |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dares | xcomp |
| 5 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 dares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | force | my palace | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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