The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 25
‘I will wager you a hundred silver pieces that you can do nothing of the sort.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: wager, do · To what, where: you, hundred silver pieces
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wager | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wager | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wager | aux |
| 4 | wager | wager | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wager | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | compound |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wager | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 do | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sort | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sort | det |
| 17 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wager | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wager | future | I | you | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Asset | ||||
| 2 | do | can | you | hundred silver pieces | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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