The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 80
All the same, for your delay in coming here, we must demand three services from you.
Who acts: delay, we · What happens: come, demand · To what, where: three services
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 (delay, we), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 same | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 delay | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 delay | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 delay | nmod:poss |
| 7 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 same | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 coming | mark |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 delay | acl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 coming | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 demand | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 demand | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 demand | aux |
| 14 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 same | parataxis |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 services | nummod |
| 16 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 demand | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 demand | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | your delay not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | must | we | three services | from you | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme service=Precondition from you=Source |
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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