The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 74

‘You are such a handsome young man you will surely not refuse an old woman a few pence.’

Who acts: You · What happens: be, not refuse · To what, where: handsome young man, old woman

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	_	8 man	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 man	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 man	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 refuse	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 refuse	aux
11	surely	surely	ADV	_	13 refuse	advmod
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 refuse	advmod
13	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 man	acl:relcl
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 refuse	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pence	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pence	amod
19	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 refuse	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	such handsome young man					tree rules
2	not refuse	future	you	a old woman				surely 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 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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