The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 62
Why, it would not buy even a slice of bacon.
Who acts: nut · What happens: not buy, slice · To what, where: slice, bacon
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nut), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 buy | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 buy | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 buy | advmod |
| 6 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 slice | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slice | det |
| 9 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bacon | case |
| 11 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slice | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy | would | nut | a slice of bacon | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slice | bacon | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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