The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 39
Are you speaking seriously, or do you wish to make a fool of me?’
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, wish, make · To what, where: fool · 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 speaking | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wish | advcl |
| 4 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 3 speaking | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 wish | cc |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fool | det |
| 13 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fool | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · progressive | you | seriously property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wish | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a fool of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fool=Product |
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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