The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 49
‘No,’ said Halvor, ‘I will not go, for I have not done anything wrong, and I have no reason to be afraid.’
Who acts: Halvor, I · What happens: say, not go, not do, have, be · To what, where: anything, reason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 done | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 done | advmod |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 go | advcl |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 done | obj |
| 20 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 anything | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 have | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 reason | det |
| 26 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 afraid | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 afraid | cop |
| 29 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 reason | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Halvor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not do | present · perfect | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | no reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | no reason not said here | afraid property | 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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