The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 39
‘Willingly, if you like,’ said the other.
Who acts: you · What happens: like, say · To what, where: other · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 6 like | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Willingly | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 like | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | willingly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=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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