The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 148
But won’t you exchange him with me?
Who acts: you · What happens: not exchange · To what, where: fire
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 (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 exchange | cc |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 exchange | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 exchange | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 exchange | nsubj |
| 5 | exchange | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 exchange | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 exchange | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 exchange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not exchange | future | you | fire | with me | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent he=Theme with i=Co-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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