The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 97
“Blow on your flute for a few days,” replied the old man, “and you will soon be able to buy your pipes.
Who acts: old man, you · What happens: blow, reply, be, buy · To what, where: flute, pipes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, you), 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 | _ | 2 Blow | punct |
| 2 | Blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 flute | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 flute | nmod:poss |
| 5 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Blow | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Blow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Blow | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Blow | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 able | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 able | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | aux |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 able | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 buy | mark |
| 25 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 buy | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | infinitive | your flute | day | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | you | able, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | buy in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your pipes | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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