The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 88
‘Do you really believe that it was just for the pleasure of talking that I gave you the advice you have neglected so abominably?’
Who acts: you, FROG, I · What happens: believe, be, talk, give, neglect · To what, where: advice, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, FROG, 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 | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 pleasure | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pleasure | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pleasure | cop |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 pleasure | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 pleasure | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pleasure | det |
| 12 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 talking | mark |
| 14 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 pleasure | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 gave | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 talking | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 advice | det |
| 20 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 neglected | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 neglected | aux |
| 23 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 advice | acl:relcl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 abominably | advmod |
| 25 | abominably | abominably | ADV | _ | 23 neglected | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · do-support | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | FROG | for the pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | FROG not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past | I | the advice | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient advice=Theme | |||
| 5 | neglect | present · perfect | you | the advice not said here | abominably property | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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