The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 121
‘I won’t go,’ said he, ‘unless I get the gold cloak.’
Who acts: I, two · What happens: not go, say, get · To what, where: gold cloak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, two), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 12 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cloak | det |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cloak | compound |
| 17 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | two | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | I | the gold cloak | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloak=Stimulus |
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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