The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 7
‘No, no!’ exclaimed his sons; ‘that you shall never do.
Who acts: you · What happens: exclaim, not do · To what, where: sons
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. 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 | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sons | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 exclaimed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | father's sons | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent son=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not do | shall | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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