The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 304
‘Very well, do as he asks; one should refuse nothing to a man with a rope round his neck.’
Who acts: King, one · What happens: do, ask, refuse · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, one), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 do | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 asks | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asks | nsubj |
| 8 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 refuse | punct |
| 10 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 refuse | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 refuse | aux |
| 12 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 refuse | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refuse | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 rope | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rope | det |
| 19 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | nmod |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 neck | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refuse | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | refuse | should | one | nothing | to a man with a rope; round King's neck | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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