The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 26

He was so proud that if anyone of lower rank than his own ventured to speak to him or ask him anything, he would say nothing but ‘P!’ and that does not mean anything.

Who acts: Emperor, that · What happens: be, venture, speak, ask, say, not mean · To what, where: Emperor, anything, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, that), 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	4 proud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 his	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 his	mark
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 his	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 rank	case
9	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 rank	amod
10	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anyone	nmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 his	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 proud	conj
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 his	xcomp
14	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 own	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 speak	mark
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ventured	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 speak	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 ask	cc
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 speak	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ask	obj
22	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 ask	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 say	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 say	aux
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ask	conj
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 say	obj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 P	cc
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 P	punct
30	P	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	conj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 nothing	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 mean	cc
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 mean	nsubj
35	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 mean	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 mean	advmod
37	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 say	conj
38	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 mean	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Emperor			proud property	tree rules
2	venture	participle	Emperor not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Emperor not said here		Emperor		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Emperor not said here	anything	Emperor		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	would	Emperor	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
6	not mean	present · do-support	that	anything			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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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