The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 49
‘It is your own fault for going there,’ answered Medio Pollito.
Who acts: wind, own fault · What happens: be, go, answer · To what, where: own fault, Medio
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, own fault), 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 fault | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fault | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fault | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fault | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fault | amod |
| 6 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fault | advcl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 going | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fault | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fault | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Medio | Medio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Medio | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | wind | your own fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | wind not said here | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | your own fault | Medio | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent medio=Eventuality |
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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