The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 12
What he demands I can’t and won’t do, so he must just make an end of me.’
Who acts: Hyacinthia · What happens: demand, not do, make · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hyacinthia), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 demands | obj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 demands | nsubj |
| 3 | demands | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | advcl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ca | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 demands | parataxis |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ca | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 8 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 demands | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 make | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 make | advmod |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 end | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | present | Hyacinthia | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | not do | future | Hyacinthia not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | must | Hyacinthia | a end of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/12/