The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 88
And the sultan answered: ‘I do not refuse to let him go, but my heart distrusts him.
Who acts: sultan, I, heart · What happens: answer, not refuse, let, go, distrust · To what, where: sultan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, I, heart), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 refuse | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 refuse | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 refuse | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 refuse | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 refuse | advmod |
| 10 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 refuse | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 distrusts | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 distrusts | cc |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 distrusts | nsubj |
| 19 | distrusts | distrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 refuse | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 distrusts | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the sultan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not refuse | present · do-support | I | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | sultan not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | distrust | present | my heart | sultan | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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