The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 11
Say what you will, he will be nothing but a Mannikin--’
Who acts: you, son · What happens: say, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Say | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 nothing | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 nothing | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nothing | cop |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 Mannikin | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Mannikin | det |
| 12 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mannikin | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | future | son | nothing | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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