The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 38
‘A 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: 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 mule | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mule | det |
| 3 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 mule | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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