The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 46
“Very well, we will not go,” answered the two elder girls; but Maria merely said, “I shall go, anyhow.”
Who acts: we, two elder girls, Maria · What happens: not go, answer, say, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, two elder girls, Maria), 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 | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girls | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 girls | nummod |
| 14 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girls | amod |
| 15 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 answered | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 18 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 19 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 20 said | advmod |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 anyhow | punct |
| 27 | anyhow | anyhow | INTJ | _ | 25 go | discourse |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | future | we | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the two elder girls | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Maria | merely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | shall | Maria | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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