The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 158
“The old madman will take neither gold nor silver,” said she.
Who acts: old madman, madman · What happens: take, say · To what, where: gold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old madman, madman), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 madman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 madman | amod |
| 4 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 gold | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 silver | cc |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | the old madman | neither gold nor silver | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | madman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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