The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 15

But soft-hearted Susan replied, ‘Please don’t do so; he’s surely not so useless as all that.’

Who acts: hearted Susan · What happens: reply, not do

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearted Susan), 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	_	6 replied	cc
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hearted	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 soft	punct
4	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Susan	amod
5	Susan	Susan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	Please	please	INTJ	_	12 do	discourse
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 replied	ccomp
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ’s	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ’s	nsubj
16	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	conj
17	surely	surely	ADV	_	16 ’s	advmod
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 useless	advmod
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 useless	advmod
20	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ’s	ccomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 that	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 that	det:predet
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 useless	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	hearted Susan						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do	infinitive · do-support							vn act-114-1 «NP 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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