The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 84
“Oh, I am not sure of that!” said the son, “and, anyway, I will have my will for once.”
Who acts: son · What happens: not be, say, have · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 sure | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sure | advmod |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sure | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 23 have | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 anyway | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 will | nmod:poss |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 once | case |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 will | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | the son = son | of that; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | future | the son = son | anyway property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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