The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 26
‘Very well,’ she replied, ‘if I’m not to be told, of course I don’t want to know anything about it.’
Who acts: wife, I · What happens: reply, be, not tell, not want, know · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 7 replied | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 ’m | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ’m | nsubj |
| 12 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | advcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 told | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 told | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 want | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 23 want | advmod |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 of | fixed |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 want | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 want | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 want | advmod |
| 23 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 know | mark |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 want | xcomp |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 know | obj |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 anything | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | wife | well property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | not want | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | anything | about course | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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