The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 102
‘Who are you, and how dare you come near my high-mightiness, upon my golden throne?’ said Turritella, frowning fiercely at her.
Who acts: you, dare · What happens: be, come, say, frown · To what, where: you, dare, high mightiness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dare), 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 | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 you | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 dare | advmod |
| 8 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dare | acl:relcl |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 mightiness | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mightiness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mightiness | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 high | punct |
| 15 | mightiness | mightiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 throne | punct |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 throne | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 throne | nmod:poss |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 throne | amod |
| 20 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dare | appos |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 throne | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 throne | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 frowning | punct |
| 26 | frowning | frown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 said | advcl |
| 27 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 26 frowning | advmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 frowning | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | present | you | dare not said here | my high mightiness | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dare=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | dare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | frown | gerund | dare not said here | at Turritella; fiercely property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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 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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