The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 115
“It can’t be bought either for gold or money,” answered the girl.
Who acts: girl · What happens: not buy, answer · To what, where: apple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | _ | 6 bought | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bought | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bought | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bought | aux:pass |
| 6 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 answered | advcl |
| 7 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 9 gold | cc:preconj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 money | cc |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gold | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bought | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bought | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy in a quote | can · passive | apple | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary gold=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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