The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 86

‘Oh, I have only my own poor head,’ answered the prince, and the old man went away growling, ‘I don’t believe a word of it!

Who acts: I, old man · What happens: have, answer, go away, growl, not believe, word · To what, where: own poor head, prince, word, thread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old man), 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 have	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	ccomp
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 head	advmod
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 head	amod
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 head	amod
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	growling	growl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 believe	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 believe	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 believe	nsubj
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 believe	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 believe	advmod
29	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 growling	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 word	det
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 believe	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 word	nmod
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	my own poor head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past			the prince		tree rules
3	go away	past	the old man			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	growl	gerund	the old man not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not believe	present · do-support	I	a word of thread			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
6	word			thread			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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