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title: How can you dare," said she with angry look, "to descend into my gar… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: How can you dare," said she with angry look, "to descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief? Who acts: you, enchantress. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 85

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How can you dare," said she with angry look, "to descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief?

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**Who acts:** you, enchantress · **What happens:** dare, say, descend, steal · **To what, where:** garden, rampion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, enchantress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:19:85
# text = How can you dare," said she with angry look, "to descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	descend	descend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	steal	steal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	rampion	rampion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | enchantress |  |  |  |  | with angry look | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **descend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | my garden |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Location |
| 4 | **steal** | infinitive |  | my rampion |  |  |  | like a thief | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rampion=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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