The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 35
“I should prefer to follow; if not I shall go no further.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: prefer, follow, not go
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (monkey), 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 | _ | 4 prefer | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 prefer | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 prefer | aux |
| 4 | prefer | prefer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 follow | mark |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 prefer | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 prefer | conj |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 further | advmod |
| 14 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 go | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prefer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer in a quote | should | the monkey = monkey | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the monkey = monkey not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | shall | the monkey = monkey | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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