The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 37
‘I bought this mule on which I am riding.’
Who acts: I · What happens: buy, ride · To what, where: mule
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), 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 | _ | 3 bought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bought | nsubj |
| 3 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mule | det |
| 5 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 riding | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 riding | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 riding | aux |
| 10 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 mule | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bought | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | I | this mule | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | present · progressive | I | on this mule | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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