The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 66
'I'll give you a hundred dollars for the bridle,' said the old man, taking out his purse.
Who acts: I, old man · What happens: give, say, take out · To what, where: hundred dollars, you, purse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old man), 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 dollars | nummod |
| 8 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 bridle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridle | det |
| 11 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dollars | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 taking | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 purse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taking | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | hundred dollars | you | for the bridle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dollar=Theme for bridle=Asset | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take out | gerund | the old man not said here | man's purse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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