The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 23
‘This is better than firewood,’ said they; ‘it will bring us more money.
Who acts: This, neighbours, firewood · What happens: be, say, bring · To what, where: more money, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, neighbours, firewood), 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 | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 better | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 firewood | case |
| 6 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 better | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bring | aux |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 money | amod |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | than firewood; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | neighbours = neighbour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring | future | firewood | more money | us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination money=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 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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