The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 130
‘I think you may just as well do that,’ said he, ‘since you won’t grant me such a little favour.’
Who acts: I, you, Ring · What happens: think, do, say, not grant · To what, where: that, 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, Ring), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 do | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grant | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 grant | punct |
| 17 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 21 grant | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 grant | nsubj |
| 19 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 grant | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 grant | advmod |
| 21 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 grant | obj |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 favour | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 favour | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 favour | amod |
| 26 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grant | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 grant | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | may | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ring | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not grant | future | you | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=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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