The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 69
“If he is so much richer than I am,” said the king, “I shall be obliged to refuse.
Who acts: fox, richer · What happens: be, say, oblige, refuse · To what, where: king, richer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, richer), 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 | _ | 7 richer | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 richer | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 richer | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 richer | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 richer | advmod |
| 7 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 said | nsubj |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 am | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 am | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 richer | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 am | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 richer | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 obliged | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 obliged | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 obliged | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 obliged | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 obliged | aux:pass |
| 21 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 refuse | mark |
| 23 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 obliged | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | fox | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | richer | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 3 | oblige in a quote | shall · passive | richer = rich | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | refuse in a quote | to-infinitive | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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