The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 101
‘Yes, certainly, I know he would,’ answered Simon, ‘if you were tied up in this sack instead of me.’
Who acts: I · What happens: know, answer, tie up · To what, where: Simon, you, sack
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (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 | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 know | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 certainly | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 would | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tied | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 tied | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 tied | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tied | aux:pass |
| 19 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 answered | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 tied | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sack | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 sack | det |
| 23 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tied | obl |
| 24 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 26 me | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 instead | fixed |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tied | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Simon | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent simon=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tie up a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | you | this sack | instead me | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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