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title: ‘How dare you,’ she said, with a wrathful glance, ‘climb into my gar… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘How dare you,’ she said, with a wrathful glance, ‘climb into my garden and steal my rampion like a common thief? Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 109

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‘How dare you,’ she said, with a wrathful glance, ‘climb into my garden and steal my rampion like a common thief?

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

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg540:41:109
# text = ‘How dare you,’ she said, with a wrathful glance, ‘climb into my garden and steal my rampion like a common thief?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wrathful	wrathful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	rampion	rampion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **climb** | infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  | my garden |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination |
| 4 | **steal** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | my rampion |  |  |  | like a common 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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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