The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 73
Her husband took patience, but at length he said to her: ‘You may do as you please, but I sha’n’t give you another penny.’
Who acts: husband, You, I · What happens: take, say, do, not give · To what, where: patience, wife, length, penny, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, You, I), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 length | case |
| 8 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obl |
| 20 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 17 do | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 give | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 24 | sha’ | sha' | PUNCT | _ | 23 I | punct |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 give | advmod |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 penny | det |
| 29 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | wife's husband | patience | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | husband | wife | length | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | do | may | You | as you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not give | infinitive | I | another penny | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient penny=Theme |
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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