The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 85
“If I were only a rich man, and had no need to work,” replied the boy, “I should not follow any.
Who acts: boy, rich man · What happens: be, have, work, reply, not follow · To what, where: rich man, need, any · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, rich man), 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 | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 man | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 man | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 need | det |
| 13 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 need | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 follow | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 follow | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 follow | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 follow | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 follow | advmod |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 replied | advcl |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 follow | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the boy = boy | a rich man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | a rich man not said here | no need | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 3 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | a rich man not said here | no need not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the boy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not follow in a quote | should | the boy = boy | any | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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