The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 24

I dare not tell you.

Who acts: I · What happens: not dare, not tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 dare	nsubj
2	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 dare	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dare	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dare	present	I						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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