The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 61
Was there ever such a piece of folly as to exchange your pipes for a scullion’s ladle?
What happens: be, exchange · To what, where: pipes
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 there | cop |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 there | advmod |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 piece | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 there | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 folly | case |
| 8 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 exchange | mark |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 exchange | mark |
| 11 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 there | advcl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exchange | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ladle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 scullion | det |
| 16 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ladle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 scullion | case |
| 18 | ladle | ladle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exchange | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ever | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exchange | to-infinitive | your pipes | for a scullion's ladle | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme for ladle=Co-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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