The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 23

‘Who are you, I should like to know, that you dare to call me a scold?

Who acts: you · What happens: be, like, know, dare, call · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	8 like	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 like	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Who	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Who	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 know	mark
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dare	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 dare	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 dare	nsubj
14	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 like	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 call	mark
16	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dare	xcomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 call	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 scold	det
19	scold	scold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 call	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	you		tree rules
2	like	should			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	know not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	dare	present	you		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	call	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme scold=Result

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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