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title: Who is the low knave, the insolent coxcomb, who has dared to raise h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Who is the low knave, the insolent coxcomb, who has dared to raise his eyes to the Kaiser's daughter? Who acts: insolent coxcomb. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 84

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Who is the low knave, the insolent coxcomb, who has dared to raise his eyes to the Kaiser's daughter?

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**Who acts:** insolent coxcomb · **What happens:** be, dare, raise · **To what, where:** low knave, eyes, daughter

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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 (insolent coxcomb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:8:84
# text = Who is the low knave, the insolent coxcomb, who has dared to raise his eyes to the Kaiser's daughter?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	knave	knave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	insolent	insolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	coxcomb	coxcomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the low knave |  |  |  | Who *nsubj*; the insolent coxcomb *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dare** | present · perfect | the insolent coxcomb |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **raise** | to-infinitive | the insolent coxcomb *not said here* | Kaiser's eyes | the Kaiser's daughter |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to daughter=Destination |

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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:** «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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