The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 78
“Oh, no, he won’t!” replied the fox; “just do as I tell you.”
Who acts: fox · What happens: reply, do, tell · To what, where: you · 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), 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 | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 wo | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wo | nsubj |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wo | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 wo | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wo | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fox | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 tell | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | future | the fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the fox = fox | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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