The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 30
‘I won’t refuse your request, poor creature,’ said Turritella condescendingly.
Who acts: I, Turritella, your · What happens: not refuse, say, request · To what, where: request · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Turritella, your), 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 | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 refuse | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 refuse | advmod |
| 5 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 request | nmod:poss |
| 7 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refuse | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 creature | punct |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 request | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | condescendingly | condescendingly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | future | I | your request poor creature | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Turritella | condescendingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | request | your | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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