The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 19
“Well, I don’t mind,” replied the Lapp, who was a prudent man, and did not wish the fox to think him too eager; “but show me first what money you have got.”
Who acts: Lapp, money · What happens: not mind, reply, be, not wish, think, show · To what, where: prudent man, fox, Lapp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (Lapp, money), 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 | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 mind | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mind | advmod |
| 7 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lapp | det |
| 12 | Lapp | Lapp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 man | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Lapp | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wish | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wish | cc |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 wish | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 wish | advmod |
| 23 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fox | det |
| 25 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wish | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 think | mark |
| 27 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wish | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 think | obj |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 eager | advmod |
| 30 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 think | xcomp |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 show | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 show | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 show | cc |
| 34 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 show | iobj |
| 36 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 show | advmod |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 got | obj |
| 38 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 got | nsubj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 got | nsubj |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 got | aux |
| 41 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 show | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 got | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | present · do-support | the Lapp = lapp | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Lapp | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Lapp | a prudent man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not wish | past · do-support | the fox | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fox=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | fox | eager property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | show in a quote | infinitive | the Lapp = lapp | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | get in a quote | present · perfect | money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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