The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 1
‘You’re right again,’ said the Magician in amazement; ‘but I’ve still another task for you to do.
Who acts: You, Magician, I · What happens: be, say, have, do · To what, where: task · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Magician, 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 | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 again | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 ’re | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Magician | det |
| 10 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 amazement | case |
| 12 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Magician | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’ve | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’ve | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 ’ve | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ’ve | nsubj |
| 17 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 ’ve | advmod |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 task | det |
| 20 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ’ve | obj |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ’ve | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | You | again | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Magician in amazement | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | another task | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | 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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