The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 83

But his son replied, ‘I must and will go.’

Who acts: son, I · What happens: reply, go · 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 (son, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 replied	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 replied	nsubj
4	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 replied	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	brother's son						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	must · future	I						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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