The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 113
I don’t bite either of them!’
Who acts: I · What happens: not bite · To what, where: either
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bite | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bite | advmod |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 bite | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 either | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bite | present · do-support | I | either | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Patient |
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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