The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 55
‘I will neither have you, nor will I refuse you,’ said he.
Who acts: I, youth · What happens: have, refuse, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 refuse | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 refuse | cc |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 refuse | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 refuse | nsubj |
| 11 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 refuse | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | I | you | neither property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 2 | refuse | future | I | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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