The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 97
Well, Hans could do that; but what would his wages be?
Who acts: Hans, wages · What happens: do, be · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, wages), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 be | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 be | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 be | obj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | aux |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wages | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 be | nsubj |
| 13 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | Hans | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be | would | Hans's wages | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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 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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