The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 66
May I offer you a joint of lizard or a frog’s thigh?’
Who acts: I · What happens: offer · To what, where: joint, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 offer | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 offer | nsubj |
| 3 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 offer | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 joint | det |
| 6 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offer | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lizard | case |
| 8 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joint | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 thigh | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 frog | det |
| 11 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thigh | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 frog | case |
| 13 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joint | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | may | I | a joint of lizard or a frog's thigh | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal joint=Theme |
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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