The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 96
“Yes, a hundred gold pieces,” said he, throwing down the bag, “but that will not last us any time.
Who acts: hundred gold pieces, that · What happens: say, throw down, not last · To what, where: bag, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred gold pieces, that), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 pieces | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pieces | nummod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pieces | compound |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pieces | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pieces | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 throwing | punct |
| 13 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 bag | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bag | det |
| 16 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 throwing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 last | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 last | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 that | cc |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 last | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 last | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 last | advmod |
| 23 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 throwing | advcl |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 last | obj |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 last | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | hundred gold pieces | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw down | gerund | hundred gold pieces not said here | the bag | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not last in a quote | future | that | us | time | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme we=Value |
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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