The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 13

'No, of a surety,' answered the youth, who had no wish that this giant should know him either; 'but I will wrestle with you as if I were he.'

Who acts: surety, youth, giant, I · What happens: answer, have, know, wrestle, be · To what, where: youth, wish, surety · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. 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, giant, 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	_	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	_	21 know	mark
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 giant	det
19	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 know	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	obj
23	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 know	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 wrestle	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 wrestle	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 wrestle	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 wrestle	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 wrestle	aux
29	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 wrestle	obl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 were	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 were	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 were	nsubj
35	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wrestle	advcl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 were	nsubj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 wrestle	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 wrestle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	a surety	the youth		tree rules
2	have	past	the youth	no wish		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
3	know	should	this giant	surety	either property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	wrestle	future	I		with you	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent
5	be	past	I			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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