The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 73
‘How dared you marry my daughter without my consent?’ he asked.
Who acts: you, Mark, my · What happens: dare, marry, ask, consent · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mark, my), 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 dared | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dared | advmod |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | nsubj |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marry | obj |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 consent | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 consent | nmod:poss |
| 10 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marry | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | marry | infinitive | you | my daughter | without my consent | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Mark | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | consent | my | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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