The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 62

My repugnance to his magic was so great that I would not condescend to give any answer.

Who acts: repugnance, I · What happens: be, not condescend, give · To what, where: answer

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 (repugnance, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 repugnance	nmod:poss
2	repugnance	repugnance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 great	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 magic	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 magic	nmod:poss
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repugnance	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 great	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 great	advmod
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 condescend	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 condescend	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 condescend	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 condescend	advmod
13	condescend	condescend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 great	csubj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 condescend	xcomp
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 answer	det
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	My repugnance to door's magic		great property	tree rules
2	not condescend	would	I			tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	any answer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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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