The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 56
‘Perhaps you will serve me for another year yet,’ said the troll, ‘and you will get six bushels of money for it; that makes twelve in all, and that is a pretty penny.’
Who acts: you, that · What happens: serve, say, get, make, be · To what, where: me, troll, six bushels, twelve, all, pretty penny · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 | _ | 5 serve | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 serve | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 serve | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 serve | aux |
| 5 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 serve | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 serve | obl |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 serve | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 serve | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 serve | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 troll | det |
| 15 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 bushels | nummod |
| 23 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 get | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 money | case |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bushels | nmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 money | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 makes | punct |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 makes | nsubj |
| 30 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 31 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 makes | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 makes | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 penny | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 penny | cc |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 penny | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 penny | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 penny | det |
| 39 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 penny | amod |
| 40 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 makes | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 makes | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | future | you | me | yet; year | perhaps property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the troll | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | future | you | six bushels of money for money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bushel=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | present | that | twelve | all | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset twelve=Product | |||
| 5 | is a | present | that | a pretty penny | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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