The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 61
Suppose I hunt butterflies, and you, serpents.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: suppose, hunt · To what, where: butterflies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hunt | nsubj |
| 3 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Suppose | ccomp |
| 4 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunt | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 you | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Suppose | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 serpents | punct |
| 9 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 you | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hunt | present | I | butterflies | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=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 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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