The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 64

‘But you will have to fight me first,’ he said in a trembling voice, for when you faced him properly he was not brave at all.

Who acts: you, Stan · What happens: have, fight, say, face, not be · To what, where: me, trembling voice, Stan, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Stan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:1083): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fight	mark
7	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 fight	obj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 fight	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 voice	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 voice	det
16	trembling	trembling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 voice	amod
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 brave	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 brave	mark
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 faced	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 faced	nsubj
22	faced	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 brave	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 faced	obj
24	properly	properly	ADV	_	22 faced	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 brave	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 brave	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 brave	advmod
28	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 brave	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	future	you					tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	you not said here	me			first property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Stan			a trembling voice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	face	past	you		Stan		properly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination
5	not is	past	Stan			all	brave property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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