The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 21
‘Because it seems to me you’ve got hold of a donkey, and not of a mule.’
Who acts: it, you · What happens: seem, get, hold · To what, where: me, hold, donkey
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 (it, 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 | _ | 4 seems | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 seems | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seems | nsubj |
| 4 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seems | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 seems | parataxis |
| 10 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 donkey | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 donkey | det |
| 13 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mule | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mule | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 mule | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mule | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mule | det |
| 19 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seems | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | it | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | you | hold of a donkey | of a mule | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | hold | a donkey | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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