The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 212
‘Now that I have got you, I don’t want any more,’ answered she.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, not want, answer · To what, where: you, Mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 want | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 want | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 want | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 want | advmod |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 more | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 want | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | I | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not want | present · do-support | I | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Mother | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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