The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 82
“No, indeed, you shall not do that,” said the bailiff; “I am the one to do that.”
Who acts: you, bailiff · What happens: not do, say, be, do · To what, where: that, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bailiff), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 No | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bailiff | det |
| 15 | bailiff | bailiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 one | acl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | shall | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bailiff | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the bailiff = bailiff | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the bailiff not said here | the one | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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