The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 21

“It is I who must judge,” he said in tones of command; “and this matter cannot be decided by women’s dreams, but by certain unmistakable signs.

Who acts: madman, dreams, women · What happens: be, judge, say, not decide, intonate, dream · To what, where: I, tones, matter, command · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madman, dreams, women), 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 said	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 I	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 I	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 judge	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 judge	aux
7	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 I	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 tones	case
13	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 command	case
15	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tones	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 decided	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 decided	cc
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 matter	det
20	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 decided	nsubj:pass
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 decided	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 decided	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 decided	aux:pass
24	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	28 dreams	case
26	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dreams	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 women	case
28	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 decided	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 signs	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 signs	cc
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 signs	case
32	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 signs	amod
33	unmistakable	unmistakable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 signs	amod
34	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 decided	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	madman	I		tree rules
2	judge in a quote	must				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past			tones of command	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner
4	not decide in a quote	can · passive	women's dreams	this matter		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
5	intonate			command		nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	dream in a quote		women			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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