The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 6
‘But,’ said Jack, ‘I could not kill anyone unless I were fighting with him; and I could not draw my sword upon a woman.
Who acts: Jack, I · What happens: say, not kill, fight, not draw · To what, where: anyone, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, I), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kill | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 kill | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kill | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 kill | advmod |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 17 fighting | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fighting | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fighting | aux |
| 17 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 kill | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fighting | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 draw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 draw | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 draw | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 draw | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 draw | advmod |
| 25 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sword | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 draw | obj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 woman | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 woman | det |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 draw | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not kill | could | I | anyone | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fight a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | I | with Jack | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not draw | could | I | my sword | upon a woman | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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 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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