The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 132
“I’ve money enough,” he replied, “but your balls aren’t round enough.”
Who acts: man, balls · What happens: have, reply, not be · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, balls), 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’ve | obj |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 ’ve | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 round | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 round | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 round | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 balls | nmod:poss |
| 14 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 round | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 round | cop |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 round | advmod |
| 17 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 round | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | man | money | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | your balls | enough, round property | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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