The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 84
“Of course, I would much rather stay at home, but the miller was so anxious I should be there that I really could not refuse.”
Who acts: marriage, miller · What happens: stay, be, not refuse · To what, where: home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, miller), 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 | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 9 stay | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | aux |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 rather | advmod |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 9 stay | advmod |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 anxious | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 anxious | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 miller | det |
| 15 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anxious | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 anxious | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 anxious | advmod |
| 18 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stay | parataxis |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 there | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 there | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 there | cop |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 anxious | ccomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 refuse | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 refuse | nsubj |
| 25 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 refuse | advmod |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 refuse | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 refuse | advmod |
| 28 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 there | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | would | the miller's marriage = marriage | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the miller | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | should | the miller's marriage = marriage | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not refuse in a quote | could | the miller's marriage = marriage | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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