The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 90
“I have not got these treasures by the dozen.”
Who acts: Father · What happens: not get · To what, where: treasures
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 treasures | det |
| 7 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 dozen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dozen | det |
| 10 | dozen | dozen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | present · perfect | Father | this treasures | by the dozen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=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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