More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 6
I can sell it as _easy_ as _easy_, and get a lot o' penny pieces for it.
Who acts: I · What happens: sell, get · To what, where: astonishment, lot
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | aux |
| 3 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sell | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 easy | mark |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sell | advcl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 easy | mark |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 easy | punct |
| 11 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 easy | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 easy | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lot | det |
| 17 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 21 pieces | case |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 pieces | punct |
| 20 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pieces | compound |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 get | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pieces | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | can | I | astonishment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | a lot | of penny pieces for astonishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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