The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 88
The rogues were more amazed than ever; they forgot their anger, and buying the pipe for two hundred gold pieces, they went joyfully home.
Who acts: friends · What happens: forget, buy, go, anger · To what, where: anger, pipe
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 (friends), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rogues | det |
| 2 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 amazed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amazed | aux:pass |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 amazed | advmod |
| 5 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 amazed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgot | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgot | nsubj |
| 10 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amazed | parataxis |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 anger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgot | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 buying | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 buying | cc |
| 15 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 forgot | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pipe | det |
| 17 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buying | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hundred | compound |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 pieces | nummod |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pieces | compound |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 buying | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgot | conj |
| 26 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | friends = friend | friends's anger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | the pipe | for hundred gold pieces | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme for piece=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | go | past | friends = friend | home, joyfully property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | anger | friends = friend | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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