The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 3
‘I am ready,’ answered Simon, ‘to do what you please; there’s nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, answer, do, not do · To what, where: Simon
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 what | nsubj |
| 15 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 13 what | discourse |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’s | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 ’s | expl |
| 18 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 ’s | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 do | advmod |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 do | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’s | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Simon | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent simon=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | not do | would | I | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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