The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 134

“Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.”

Who acts: I · What happens: dare, wound, cry, tell, take, slay · To what, where: thee, Giant, me, big sword · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 dared	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dared	nsubj
3	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dared	aux:pass
4	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cried	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wound	mark
6	wound	wound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dared	xcomp
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 wound	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dared	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 dared	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Giant	det
12	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 take	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	ccomp
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sword	nmod:poss
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sword	amod
24	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slay	cc
26	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 take	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slay	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	dare in a quote	present · passive				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wound in a quote	to-infinitive		thee		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer
3	cry speech: express	past		the Giant		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take in a quote	may	I	my big sword		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
6	slay in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	Giant		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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