The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 70
Don’t mind if he stamps furiously with his feet and curses and swears.
Who acts: you, father · What happens: not mind, stamp, swear
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 (you, father), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 stamps | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stamps | nsubj |
| 6 | stamps | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | ccomp |
| 7 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 6 stamps | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stamps | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 curses | cc |
| 12 | curses | curse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feet | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swears | cc |
| 14 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stamps | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stamp a condition, not said to happen | present | father | with father's feet and curses; furiously property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swear | present | father not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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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