The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 2
I suppose you would like five silver pieces for them.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: suppose, like · To what, where: five silver pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 suppose | nsubj |
| 2 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 suppose | ccomp |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pieces | nummod |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pieces | compound |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 like | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pieces | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppose | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | like | would | you | five silver pieces | for pieces = piece | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus for they=Attribute |
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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