The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 88

‘You were always a hard man,’ said the youth, ‘and hard you are still if you refuse to let your own son come into your house.’

Who acts: You, hard man, own son · What happens: be, say, not let, come · To what, where: hard man, youth, own son, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, hard man, own son), 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	_	7 man	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 man	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youth	det
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	16 hard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hard	cc
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 refuse	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 refuse	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	22 refuse	advmod
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 refuse	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 refuse	nsubj
22	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hard	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 let	mark
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 refuse	xcomp
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 son	amod
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	obj
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 house	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 house	nmod:poss
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hard	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	You	a hard man			always property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a hard man	the youth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			still	refuse property	tree rules
4	not let	to-infinitive	you not said here	your own son				tree rules
5	come	infinitive	your own son not said here		your house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location

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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