The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 75

“There is nothing I should like better,” answered Rosald, shaking his head sorrowfully; “but my father is very poor, and he could never give me the money.”

Who acts: nothing, Rosald, father · What happens: be, like, answer, shake, not give · To what, where: head, money, Rosald · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, Rosald, father), 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	_	11 answered	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	ccomp
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 is	nsubj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl:relcl
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 like	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shaking	punct
14	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 answered	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shaking	obj
17	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	14 shaking	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 poor	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 poor	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 poor	cc
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 poor	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 poor	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 poor	advmod
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answered	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 give	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 give	advmod
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 poor	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 money	det
34	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	like in a quote	should	Rosald				good property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	answer speech: assert	past	Rosald					tree rules
4	shake	gerund	Rosald not said here	Rosald's head			sorrowfully property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	is in a quote	present	my father				poor property	tree rules
6	not give in a quote	could	Rosald	the money	Rosald			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient money=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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