The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 7

‘If that’s the case,’ said the man, ‘I’ve no objection to oblige you.’

Who acts: that, I · What happens: be, say, have, oblige · To what, where: case, man, objection, you · 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 (that, 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	_	9 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 case	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 case	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 case	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 case	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ’ve	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 ’ve	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ’ve	nsubj
15	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 objection	det
17	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ’ve	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 oblige	mark
19	oblige	oblige	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ’ve	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 oblige	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	that	the case	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	have	present	I	no objection	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Patient
4	oblige	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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