The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 99

'Biz-z-z,' said the wasp, 'would you not like to be as great a chief as Insato?'

Who acts: z z, you · What happens: say, not like, be · To what, where: wasp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (z z, 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	_	6 z	punct
2	Biz	biz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 z	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Biz	punct
4	z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 z	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 z	punct
6	z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 z	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 z	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wasp	det
11	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 like	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 like	advmod
17	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	23 chief	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 chief	cop
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 chief	case
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chief	amod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chief	det
23	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 like	ccomp
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 Insato	case
25	Insato	Insato	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 chief	nmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	z z	the wasp		tree rules
2	not like	would	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		as a great chief; as Insato	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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