The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 109
'No, of a surety,' answered the youth, who had no wish that they should know him.
Who acts: surety, youth, youths · What happens: answer, have, know · To what, where: youth, wish, surety
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surety, youth, youths), 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 | _ | 6 surety | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 surety | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 surety | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 surety | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 surety | det |
| 6 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 surety | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 surety | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 youth | acl:relcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 wish | det |
| 16 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wish | acl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 know | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a surety | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the youth | no wish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | should | youths = youth | surety | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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