The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 41
‘No,’ he answered, ‘I am not a thief.
Who acts: youth, I · What happens: answer, not be · To what, where: thief
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thief | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 thief | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 thief | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thief | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 thief | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thief | det |
| 13 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | I | a thief | 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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