The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 264
But the Dwarf said: ‘No; we wouldn’t part with it for all the gold in the world.’
Who acts: Dwarf, we · What happens: say, not part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dwarf | det |
| 3 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 part | punct |
| 7 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 part | det |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 part | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 part | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 part | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 part | advmod |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 part | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 gold | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gold | det |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gold | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 part | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Dwarf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not part | would | we | with part; for all gold in the world | 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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