The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 29

‘You need not be so rude,’ said Don Giovanni; ‘I am not a beggar, and if I chose I could force you and your wife to leave your house.’

Who acts: You, Don, I · What happens: not be, say, choose, force, leave · To what, where: beggar, you, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Don, 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	_	7 rude	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 rude	nsubj
3	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rude	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 rude	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 rude	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 rude	advmod
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rude	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 rude	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Don	flat
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 beggar	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 beggar	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 beggar	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 beggar	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 beggar	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 beggar	det
19	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 force	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 force	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 chose	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 chose	nsubj
24	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 force	advcl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 force	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 force	aux
27	force	force	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 beggar	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 force	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wife	cc
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 you	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 leave	mark
33	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 force	advcl
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 house	nmod:poss
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leave	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 beggar	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 beggar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	You			rude property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Don				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	present	I	a beggar			tree rules
4	choose a condition, not said to happen	past	I				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	force	could	I		you		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	leave	to-infinitive	I not said here	your house			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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