The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 78
At last the Magician laughed aloud and said, ‘You rogue, you have been well advised to make me laugh; I won’t be your enemy any more.
Who acts: You, me, I · What happens: laugh, say, rogue, advise, make, not be · To what, where: last Magician, you, me, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
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, me, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Magician | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Magician | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Magician | det |
| 4 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | obl |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rogue | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 rogue | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 rogue | nsubj |
| 12 | rogue | rogue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 advised | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 advised | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 advised | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 advised | aux:pass |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 advised | advmod |
| 18 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rogue | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 advised | advcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 make | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 enemy | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 enemy | nsubj |
| 25 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 enemy | aux |
| 26 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 enemy | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 enemy | cop |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 29 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | parataxis |
| 30 | any | any | ADV | _ | 31 more | advmod |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 enemy | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the last Magician | aloud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | rogue | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | advise speech: other | present · perfect · passive | you | well property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | laugh | infinitive | me not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not is a | future | I | your enemy | tree rules |
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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