The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 73

‘Oh, you fools and blockheads!’ cried their wives, ‘how could you ever believe for a moment that a goat would do the work of a servant-maid?

Who acts: you, fools, goat, servant maid · What happens: fool, cry, believe, do, work · To what, where: wives, moment

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, fools, goat, servant maid), 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	_	5 fools	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 fools	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fools	nsubj
5	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cried	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blockheads	cc
7	blockheads	blockhead	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fools	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 fools	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 fools	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wives	nmod:poss
12	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 believe	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 believe	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 believe	advmod
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 believe	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 believe	nsubj
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 believe	advmod
19	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 moment	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 believe	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 do	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 goat	det
25	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 moment	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 work	det
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 maid	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 maid	det
32	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 maid	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 servant	punct
34	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 work	nmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	fool		you			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	fools and blockheads	goats's wives		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
3	believe	could	you		ever; moment	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	do	would	a goat	a moment		tree rules
5	work		a servant maid			nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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