The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 124
‘I do not sell my silence,’ answered Michael, and he went away without picking up the purse.
Who acts: I, Michael, my · What happens: not sell, answer, go away, pick up, silence · To what, where: silence, Michael, purse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Michael, my), 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 | _ | 5 sell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sell | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sell | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sell | advmod |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 silence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sell | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sell | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sell | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 picking | mark |
| 18 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 went | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 picking | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 purse | det |
| 21 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 picking | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sell | present · do-support | I | my silence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Michael | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go away | past | Michael | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pick up | gerund | Michael not said here | the purse | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Topic | ||||
| 5 | silence | my | nom silence «state 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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