The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 31
I suppose the silver tankard was brought purely for your ladyship, was it?
Who acts: I · What happens: suppose, bring, be · To what, where: silver tankard, tankard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 suppose | nsubj |
| 2 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tankard | det |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tankard | compound |
| 5 | tankard | tankard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | purely | purely | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ladyship | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ladyship | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ladyship | ladyship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 it | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 it | cop |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 suppose | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | the silver tankard | for your ladyship; purely property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | tankard | 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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