The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 34
‘I shall just accept his offer for a joke.’
Who acts: I, mad · What happens: accept, offer · To what, where: offer
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, mad), 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 accept | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 accept | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 accept | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 accept | advmod |
| 5 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 offer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accept | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 joke | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 joke | det |
| 10 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accept | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 accept | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | shall | I | mad's offer | for a joke | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | |||
| 2 | offer | mad | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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