The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 131

‘I will say that it was my mother’s, and that I will not part with it,’ said the Princess.

Who acts: I, ring, Princess · What happens: say, be, not part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ring, Princess), 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	_	4 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 mother	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mother	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mother	cop
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 mother	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 part	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 part	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 part	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 part	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 part	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 part	advmod
17	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 part	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	future	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	ring	's my mother	tree rules
3	not part	future	I	with ring	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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