Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 17
‘No,’ answered the man, ‘I will neither eat not drink.’
Who acts: I · What happens: answer, not eat, drink · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | aux |
| 12 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 13 eat | advmod |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 eat | advmod |
| 15 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 eat | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not eat | future | I | neither property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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