The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 32
‘I will buy it from you on the spot.’
Who acts: I · What happens: buy · To what, where: house, spot
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 buy | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 buy | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 buy | aux |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 buy | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 buy | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 spot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buy | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | future | I | house | the spot | from you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from you=Source |
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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