The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 121
‘Well, I have not exactly been thinking of selling him,’ said the man, ‘but if we could agree, perhaps——’
Who acts: man, we · What happens: not think, sell, say, agree · To what, where: Halvor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, we), 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 thinking | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thinking | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 thinking | advmod |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 thinking | advmod |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thinking | aux |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 selling | mark |
| 11 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thinking | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 selling | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 agree | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 agree | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 agree | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 agree | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 agree | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 agree | aux |
| 24 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 perhaps | punct |
| 26 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 24 agree | advmod |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 agree | punct |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · perfect · progressive | exactly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sell | gerund | Halvor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen | could | we | perhaps property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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