The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 64

He got his money, but would give no explanation whether he had seen the king’s daughter, and he would not take the post again, he said.

Who acts: smith · What happens: get, give, see, not take, say · To what, where: money, explanation, daughter, post · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 money	nmod:poss
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 give	cc
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 explanation	det
10	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 give	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 daughter	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 take	advmod
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 post	det
26	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 take	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	get	past	smith	smith's money		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus
2	give	would	smith not said here	no explanation		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Theme
3	see	past · perfect	smith	the king's daughter		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
4	not take	would	smith	the post	again	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	smith			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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