Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 83
The Kaiser frowns and the anger-vein swells on his brow as he replies: "Dost thou dare to speak thus to me, thou shameless girl?
Who acts: Kaiser, anger vein, thou · What happens: frown, swell, reply, do, dare, speak · To what, where: brow, thou, Kaiser · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaiser, anger vein, thou), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Kaiser | det |
| 2 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 frowns | nsubj |
| 3 | frowns | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 swells | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vein | det |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vein | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 anger | punct |
| 8 | vein | vein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swells | nsubj |
| 9 | swells | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 frowns | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 brow | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swells | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 replies | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 replies | nsubj |
| 15 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 swells | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Dost | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Dost | punct |
| 18 | Dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 frowns | conj |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 Dost | obj |
| 20 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Dost | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 speak | mark |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 dare | xcomp |
| 23 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 22 speak | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 speak | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 girl | punct |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 girl | nsubj |
| 28 | shameless | shameless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 girl | amod |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frowns | parataxis |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 frowns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frown | present | the Kaiser | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swell | present | the anger vein | vein's brow | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: ask | present | Kaiser | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | the Kaiser not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dare in a quote | infinitive | the Kaiser not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the Kaiser not said here | Kaiser | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | |||
| 7 | girl in a quote | thou | tree rules |
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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