The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 42

He would not be their priest, he said; he had too little learning for that.

Who acts: Hans · What happens: not be, say, have · To what, where: priest, little learning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 priest	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 priest	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 priest	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 priest	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 priest	nmod:poss
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 priest	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 little	advmod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 learning	amod
15	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 had	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 priest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	would	Hans	men's priest		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Hans			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	Hans	little learning	for that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent learning=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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