The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 9

She said no, and would not hear of it; so the man went out again, and settled with the White Bear that he should come again next Thursday evening, and get her answer.

Who acts: husbandman, man · What happens: say, not hear, go out, settle, come, get · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husbandman, man), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hear	cc
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hear	advmod
8	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 settled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 settled	cc
20	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 Bear	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Bear	det
23	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Bear	amod
24	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 settled	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 come	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 settled	advcl
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 evening	amod
31	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 evening	compound
32	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 get	cc
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 answer	nmod:poss
37	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	husbandman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not hear	would				of objection	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
3	go out	past	the man		again	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	settle	past	husbandman not said here			with the White Bear	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with bear=Location
5	come	should	man		again; evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get	infinitive	husbandman not said here	husbandman's answer			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
7	answer		husbandman				nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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