The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 11
‘My dogs are not like other dogs,’ said the stranger; ‘they will feed you instead of you them, and will make your fortune.
Who acts: dogs, stranger · What happens: not be, say, feed, make · To what, where: sheep, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, stranger), 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 | _ | 8 dogs | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dogs | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dogs | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 dogs | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 dogs | case |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dogs | amod |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dogs | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stranger | det |
| 13 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 feed | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 feed | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 feed | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 feed | aux |
| 18 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 feed | iobj |
| 20 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 22 you | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 instead | fixed |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 feed | obl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 feed | iobj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 make | cc |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 make | aux |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 feed | conj |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 make | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | My dogs | like other dogs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stranger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feed | future | dogs = dog | sheep | instead you | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient they=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | future | dogs = dog not said here | your fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |
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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