The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 89
‘Really,’ said the Fairy Douceline, ‘on this happy occasion I cannot find it in my heart to refuse you anything.’
Who acts: Fairy, I · What happens: say, not find, refuse · To what, where: occasion, happy occasion, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, 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 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Really | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | Douceline | Douceline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fairy | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 occasion | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 occasion | det |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 occasion | amod |
| 14 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 find | advmod |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 find | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 refuse | mark |
| 24 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 find | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 refuse | obj |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 refuse | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not find | can | I | occasion | this happy occasion | in my heart | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | ||
| 3 | refuse | to-infinitive | you | tree rules |
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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