The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 36
‘And what bargain did you drive there?’ asked the cunning fellow.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, drive, ask · To what, where: cunning fellow · 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 (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 | _ | 7 drive | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drive | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 drive | obj |
| 4 | bargain | bargain | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drive | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 drive | nsubj |
| 7 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 drive | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 drive | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 drive | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fellow | det |
| 13 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fellow | amod |
| 14 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | drive | past · do-support | you | there | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the cunning fellow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent fellow=Recipient 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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