The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 52

However, he was not to be intimidated, but said, ‘I must and will ride on.’

Who acts: I · What happens: not be, say, ride on · To what, where: brother · 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 (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	However	however	ADV	_	8 intimidated	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 intimidated	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 intimidated	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 intimidated	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 intimidated	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 intimidated	aux:pass
8	intimidated	intimidate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 intimidated	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ride	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 ride	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ride	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 ride	aux
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ride	cc
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 ride	aux
18	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 ride	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 ride	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past · passive		brother	however, intimidate property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ride on	must · future	I			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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