Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 53
You dare to reproach me, you, who did not hesitate to add the last drop of an infant's blood to make your elixir of life?
Who acts: You · What happens: dare, reproach, not hesitate, add, make · To what, where: me, last drop, elixir
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 dare | nsubj |
| 2 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 reproach | mark |
| 4 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dare | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reproach | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 dare | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hesitate | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hesitate | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hesitate | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 hesitate | advmod |
| 12 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dare | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 add | mark |
| 14 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hesitate | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 drop | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drop | amod |
| 17 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 add | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 blood | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 infant | det |
| 20 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blood | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 infant | case |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drop | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 add | advcl |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 elixir | nmod:poss |
| 26 | elixir | elixir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 elixir | nmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present | You | you conj | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reproach | to-infinitive | You not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not hesitate | past · do-support | who nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | to-infinitive | the last drop of a infant's blood | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | your elixir of life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elixir=Product |
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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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