The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 82

“No, I won’t say it till I get the princess for my wife,” was the shepherd’s answer.

Who acts: I · What happens: not say, get, be · To what, where: life, princess, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 say	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
5	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 answer	csubj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 get	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 answer	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shepherd	det
21	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 answer	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 shepherd	case
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert in a quote	future	I	life		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	get in a quote	present	I	the princess	for my wife	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent princess=Theme for wife=Beneficiary
3	be speech: assert	past		the shepherd's answer		tree rules

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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