The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 100

‘I have three tiresome animals,’ he answered, ‘which I don’t want to keep any longer.

Who acts: I, Hunter · What happens: have, answer, not want, keep · To what, where: three tiresome animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Hunter), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 animals	nummod
5	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 want	obj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 want	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 want	advmod
17	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 keep	mark
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 want	xcomp
20	any	any	ADV	_	21 longer	advmod
21	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 keep	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	three tiresome animals		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past	Hunter			tree rules
3	not want	present · do-support	I			tree rules
4	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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