The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 56
'I will not buy my life with faithlessness,' she said proudly; 'and I will go with you this moment to the dragon's abode.'
Who acts: I, Muffette · What happens: not buy, say, go · To what, where: life, abode · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Muffette), 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 buy | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 buy | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 buy | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 buy | advmod |
| 5 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buy | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 faithlessness | case |
| 9 | faithlessness | faithlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buy | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 buy | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 buy | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 buy | parataxis |
| 14 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 buy | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 buy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 buy | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 abode | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dragon | det |
| 27 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 abode | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 dragon | case |
| 29 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 buy | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy | future | I | my life | with faithlessness | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Muffette | proudly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | future | I | the dragon's abode | moment | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to abode=Initial_Location |
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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