The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 50
You may call as much as you like but you will never get me to come.’
Who acts: You, me · What happens: call, like, not get, come · To what, where: much, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, me), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 call | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 like | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 like | nsubj |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 much | advcl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 call | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 get | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | may | You | much | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not get | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | me not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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