The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 17
(1) You may buy them from Mr. Nutt, in the Strand.
Who acts: You · What happens: buy · To what, where: Fancy, Nutt
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 buy | discourse |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 buy | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | aux |
| 6 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 buy | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Nutt | case |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Strand | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Strand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Strand | det |
| 14 | Strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | may | You | Fancy | Nutt Mr. | in the Strand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from nutt=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 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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