The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 93

‘You will not let me go without a little present?’ said the greedy wife, as she saw no signs of one being offered her.

Who acts: You, me, wife · What happens: not let, go, say, see, offer · To what, where: me, greedy wife, signs, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, me, wife), 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	_	5 let	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	without	without	ADP	_	11 present	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 present	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 present	amod
11	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wife	det
16	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wife	amod
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 saw	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 signs	det
23	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 offered	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 signs	nmod
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 offered	aux:pass
27	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 saw	ccomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 offered	iobj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not let	future	You	me			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	me not said here			without a little present	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the greedy wife			tree rules
4	see	past	wife				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	offer	gerund · passive		no signs of one	wife		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal she=Theme

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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