The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 229
I know its price; I bought it for an eighth.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, buy · To what, where: price
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 price | nmod:poss |
| 4 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 bought | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bought | nsubj |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bought | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 eighth | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 eighth | det |
| 11 | eighth | eighth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bought | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | chatterer's price | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | I | price | for a eighth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for eighth=Beneficiary |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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