The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 9
In spite of his sadness, the youth smiled and replied, ‘What would I do with your dogs?
Who acts: youth, I · What happens: smile, reply, do, spite · To what, where: sadness · 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 (youth, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smiled | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sadness | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sadness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spite | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smiled | nsubj |
| 9 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 replied | cc |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smiled | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 dogs | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 do | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the youth | in spite of fortune's sadness | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spite=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the youth not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | would | I | with your dogs | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | spite | fortune's sadness | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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