The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 128

‘I won’t go,’ said the old troll, ‘unless you lend me the gold chess-board.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not go, say, lend · To what, where: old troll, gold chess board, me · 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, you), 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 troll	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 troll	amod
11	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lend	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 lend	punct
14	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	16 lend	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 lend	nsubj
16	lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 lend	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 board	det
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 board	compound
20	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 board	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 chess	punct
22	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lend	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not go	future	I			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the old troll		tree rules
3	lend a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the gold chess board	me	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient board=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 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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