The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 13

‘Go your way,’ said the old man in a sulky tone, ‘I’ll have nothing to do with tramps.

Who acts: old man, I · What happens: go, say, have, do · To what, where: way, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 tone	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tone	det
13	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tone	amod
14	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 have	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 nothing	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 tramps	case
24	tramps	tramp	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 do	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive		your way		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man in a sulky tone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	future	I	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here	with tramps	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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