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The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 47

‘Never mind,’ replied Simon, ‘I’ll play them one worth two of that; for depend upon it they won’t be contented with having got the donkey out of me, but they’ll try by some new dodge to get something more, or I’m much mistaken.’

Who acts: Simon, I, rascals · What happens: not mind, reply, play, depend, not content, get · To what, where: rascals, donkey, something · 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 (Simon, I, rascals), 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

punctadvmodccomppunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctnsubjauxparataxisobjobjamodconjcasenmodpunctcaseconjcaseoblnsubjauxadvmodaux:passparataxismarkauxxcompdetobjcasecaseoblpunctccnsubjauxconjcasedetamodoblmarkadvclobjobjpunctccnsubjparataxisadvmodxcomppunctpunctroot‘PUNCTNeverADVmindVERB,PUNCT’PUNCTrepliedVERBSimonPROPN,PUNCT‘PUNCTIPRON’llAUXplayVERBthemPRONoneNUMworthADJtwoNUMofADPthatPRON;PUNCTforADPdependVERBuponADPitPRONtheyPRONwoAUXn’tPARTbeAUXcontentedVERBwithSCONJhavingAUXgotVERBtheDETdonkeyNOUNoutADPofADPmePRON,PUNCTbutCCONJtheyPRON’llAUXtryVERBbyADPsomeDETnewADJdodgeNOUNtoPARTgetVERBsomethingPRONmoreADJ,PUNCTorCCONJIPRON’mVERBmuchADVmistakenADJ.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_3 mindpunct
2NeverneverADVPronType=Neg3 mindadvmod
3mindmindVERBVerbForm=Inf6 repliedccomp
4,,PUNCT_3 mindpunct
5’'PUNCT_3 mindpunct
6repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7SimonSimonPROPNNumber=Sing6 repliednsubj
8,,PUNCT_12 playpunct
9‘'PUNCT_12 playpunct
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 playnsubj
11’llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin12 playaux
12playplayVERBVerbForm=Inf6 repliedparataxis
13themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 playobj
14oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card12 playobj
15worthworthADJDegree=Pos16 twoamod
16twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card14 oneconj
17ofofADP_18 thatcase
18thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem14 onenmod
19;;PUNCT_21 dependpunct
20forforADP_21 dependcase
21dependdependVERBVerbForm=Inf12 playconj
22uponuponADP_23 itcase
23ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 dependobl
24theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 contentednsubj
25wowillAUXVerbForm=Fin28 contentedaux
26n’tnotPARTPolarity=Neg28 contentedadvmod
27bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf28 contentedaux:pass
28contentedcontentVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 dependparataxis
29withwithSCONJ_31 gotmark
30havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part31 gotaux
31gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part28 contentedxcomp
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 donkeydet
33donkeydonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing31 gotobj
34outoutADP_36 mecase
35ofofADP_36 mecase
36meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs31 gotobl
37,,PUNCT_41 trypunct
38butbutCCONJ_41 trycc
39theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs41 trynsubj
40’llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin41 tryaux
41trytryVERBVerbForm=Inf12 playconj
42bybyADP_45 dodgecase
43somesomeDETPronType=Ind45 dodgedet
44newnewADJDegree=Pos45 dodgeamod
45dodgedodgeNOUNNumber=Sing41 tryobl
46totoPART_47 getmark
47getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf41 tryadvcl
48somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind47 getobj
49moremoreADJDegree=Cmp47 getobj
50,,PUNCT_53 ’mpunct
51ororCCONJ_53 ’mcc
52IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs53 ’mnsubj
53’mbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 repliedparataxis
54muchmuchADV_55 mistakenadvmod
55mistakenmistakenADJDegree=Pos53 ’mxcomp
56..PUNCT_6 repliedpunct
57’'PUNCT_6 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not mindinfinitivevn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2reply speech: assertpastSimonvn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3playfutureIrascals = rascalvn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary one=Theme
4dependinfinitiveI not said hereupon wayvn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
5not contentfuture · passiverascals = rascaltree rules
6getgerund · perfectthe donkeyout mevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer donkey=Stimulus
7tryfuturerascals = rascalby some new dodgevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8getto-infinitiverascals = rascal not said heresomethingvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent something=Beneficiary more=Theme
9bepresentImistaken propertyvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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