The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 95
They would not, however, give up the contract, but threatened both her and the man.
Who acts: trees · What happens: not give up, threaten · To what, where: contract, Spirit
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 give | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 give | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 give | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 contract | det |
| 10 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threatened | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 threatened | cc |
| 13 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | advcl |
| 14 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 15 her | cc:preconj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threatened | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 man | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 her | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give up | would | trees = tree | the contract | however property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contract=Source | |||
| 2 | threaten | past | trees = tree not said here | Spirit | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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