The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 18

'I do not want any of them,' answered she; 'they are no use.

Who acts: I, sisters · What happens: not want, answer, be · To what, where: any, custom, use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sisters), 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 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	ccomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 want	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 any	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 use	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 use	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 use	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 use	cop
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 use	det
18	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	I	any		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot any=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			custom	tree rules
3	is a	present	sisters = sister	no use		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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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