The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 19

‘Are you in earnest, or only joking?’

Who acts: you · What happens: be, joke

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	_	5 earnest	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 earnest	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 earnest	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 earnest	case
5	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 joking	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 joking	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 joking	advmod
9	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 earnest	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 joking	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 earnest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					earn property	tree rules
2	joke speech: other	gerund							vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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