The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 33

‘I have merely to remain firm,’ thought he, ‘and they will have to give in.’

Who acts: I, youth · What happens: have, remain, think, give in · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, youth), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	ccomp
4	merely	merely	ADV	_	6 remain	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remain	mark
6	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
7	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 remain	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	19 give	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	have	present	I		tree rules
2	remain	to-infinitive	I not said here	firm, merely property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	future	youth		tree rules
5	give in	to-infinitive	youth not said here		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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