The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 55
Whoever does not believe this story must pay a dollar.
Who acts: Whoever, story · What happens: not believe, pay · To what, where: dollar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever, story), 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pay | aux |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dollar | det |
| 10 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | present · do-support | Whoever | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pay | must | this story | a dollar | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset |
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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