The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 29
Perhaps there might be a great deal of silver and only a little gold in the bag; or a great deal of gold, and only a little silver.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: great deal, gold
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 (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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 deal | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 deal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deal | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 7 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 silver | case |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deal | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gold | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 gold | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gold | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gold | amod |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deal | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bag | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bag | det |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gold | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 deal | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 deal | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 deal | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 deal | amod |
| 22 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deal | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deal | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 silver | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 silver | cc |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 silver | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 silver | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 silver | amod |
| 30 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deal | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | imperative | you not said here | a great deal and a little gold in the bag | of silver; perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | deal | gold | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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