Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 32
He answered, ‘I may not and will not either eat or drink.’
Who acts: man · What happens: answer, not eat, drink · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 may | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 may | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 eat | cc |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 eat | advmod |
| 11 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 eat | advmod |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 drink | cc |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eat | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not eat | may · future | either property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | 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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