The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 10
‘And what am I to do to gain the money,’ inquired Bernez, who knew quite well that the Breton peasant gives nothing for nothing.
Who acts: I, Bernez, Breton peasant · What happens: do, gain, inquire, know, give · To what, where: money, Bernez, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Bernez, Breton peasant), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 do | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 inquired | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 gain | mark |
| 9 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 do | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 money | det |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gain | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 14 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 inquired | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Bernez | acl:relcl |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 well | advmod |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 knew | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 gives | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 peasant | det |
| 23 | Breton | Breton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 peasant | compound |
| 24 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gives | nsubj |
| 25 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 knew | advcl |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 gives | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 nothing | case |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 nothing | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gain | to-infinitive | I not said here | the money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | Bernez | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent bernez=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know | past | Bernez | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | give | present | the Breton peasant | nothing | for nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme for nothing=Asset |
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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