--- title: ‘I dare not,’ said the other, ‘for if I were to put my hat on straig… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I dare not,’ said the other, ‘for if I were to put my hat on straight, there would come such a frost that the very birds in the sky would freeze and fall dead on the earth.’ Who acts: I, birds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, birds), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:19:23 # text = ‘I dare not,’ said the other, ‘for if I were to put my hat on straight, there would come such a frost that the very birds in the sky would freeze and fall dead on the earth.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dare dare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 26 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 28 det:predet _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 frost frost NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 freeze freeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 40 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **dare** | present | I | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* | the other | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | | 3 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | my hat | | straight | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme on straight=Destination | | 4 | **come** | would | | such frost | | there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frost=Theme | | 5 | **freeze** | would | the birds in the sky | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **fall** | infinitive | the birds in the sky *not said here* | | | the earth | | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/24/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/)