The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 13
“But I owe money to several people.”
Who acts: gardeners · What happens: owe · To what, where: money, several people
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardeners), 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 owe | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 owe | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 owe | nsubj |
| 4 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owe | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 owe | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 owe | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe in a quote | present | gardeners = gardener | money | several people | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent money=Theme to people=Goal |
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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