The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 4
‘I shall stay,’ replied the young man, ‘for I mean to set you free.’
Who acts: I · What happens: stay, reply, mean, set · To what, where: young man, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 mean | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 set | mark |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mean | xcomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 set | obj |
| 19 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 set | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | shall | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | I not said here | the young man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | set not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result |
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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