The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 47
‘Why not, indeed, if we can strike a bargain?’ said the other.
Who acts: we, other · What happens: not strike, say · To what, where: bargain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, other), 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 | _ | 10 strike | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 strike | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 strike | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 strike | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 indeed | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 strike | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 strike | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 strike | aux |
| 10 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bargain | det |
| 12 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strike | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 strike | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 strike | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not strike a condition, not said to happen | can | we | a bargain | indeed property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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