The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 15

‘And what did you buy there?’ continued the rogue.

Who acts: you · What happens: buy, continue · To what, where: rogue

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 (you), 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 buy	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 buy	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 buy	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buy	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 buy	nsubj
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 continued	ccomp
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 buy	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct
10	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rogue	det
12	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 continued	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · do-support	you			there			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	continue	past		the rogue					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 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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