The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 13
But I could bet you were not always in this plumage--wasn’t I a squirrel myself for a time?’
Who acts: I, you, plumage · What happens: bet, not be · To what, where: plumage, squirrel
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, plumage), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 bet | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bet | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bet | aux |
| 4 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 plumage | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plumage | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 plumage | advmod |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 plumage | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 plumage | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 plumage | det |
| 11 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 squirrel | nsubj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 plumage | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 squirrel | cop |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 squirrel | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 squirrel | nsubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 squirrel | det |
| 17 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bet | ccomp |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 squirrel | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bet | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bet | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | could | I | time | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | you | this plumage | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is a | past | this plumage | a squirrel | myself nmod | tree rules |
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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