The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 30
‘Is it possible that you really bought that beast for a mule?’
Who acts: bargain, you · What happens: be, buy · To what, where: beast
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 (bargain, 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 possible | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 bought | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bought | nsubj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 bought | advmod |
| 8 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 beast | mark |
| 10 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bought | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 mule | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mule | det |
| 13 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bought | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bargain | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | you | beast | for a mule | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beast=Theme for mule=Beneficiary |
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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