The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 47
I shall certainly not take back that handful of gold, and, if he declines to accept it, keep it yourself.’
Who acts: I, Don · What happens: not take back, decline, not accept, keep · To what, where: handful
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 (I, Don), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 handful | det |
| 8 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 handful | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 keep | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 declines | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 declines | nsubj |
| 16 | declines | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 keep | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 accept | mark |
| 18 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 declines | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 accept | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 declines | punct |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | obj |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 keep | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take back | shall | I | that handful of gold | certainly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | |||
| 2 | decline a condition, not said to happen | present | Don | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not accept | to-infinitive | Don not said here | handful | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | I not said here | handful | yourself obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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