The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 172
‘My purse does not belong to me, and I cannot give it away.’
Who acts: purse, I · What happens: not belong, not give away · To what, where: me, purse
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purse, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 belong | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 purse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belong | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 belong | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 belong | advmod |
| 6 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 belong | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 give | advmod |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 belong | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 give | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 belong | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not belong | present · do-support | My purse | me | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not give away | can | I | purse | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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