The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 16
‘We have no choice, and must take your offer,’ said they.
Who acts: We, others, your · What happens: have, take, say, offer · To what, where: choice, offer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, others, your), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 choice | det |
| 5 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 offer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | no choice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | must | We not said here | your offer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | others = other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | offer | your | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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