The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 18
‘The one I’m sitting upon, to be sure,’ replied Simon.
Who acts: I, one, Simon · What happens: be, sit, reply · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
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, one, Simon), 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 sitting | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ’m | nsubj |
| 5 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 sitting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sure | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sitting | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | the one not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | the one | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Simon | vn say-37.7-1 «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 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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