The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 84
‘Don’t be too sure of that,’ replied the toad; ‘tell me your trouble and we’ll see.’
Who acts: you, we, your · What happens: not be, reply, tell, see, trouble · To what, where: toad, trouble, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, your), 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 | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sure | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sure | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 toad | det |
| 13 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tell | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative · do-support | you not said here | of that; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the toad | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toad=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | your trouble | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trouble=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see | future | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | trouble | your | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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