English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 32
“Friend,” says he, “what a beautiful instrument that is, and what a deal of money you must make.”
Who acts: man, deal · What happens: say, instrument, be, deal · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, deal), 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 | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 instrument | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 instrument | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 instrument | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 instrument | nsubj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 instrument | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 instrument | amod |
| 12 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 make | obj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 make | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 deal | det |
| 19 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 money | case |
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deal | nmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 instrument | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | instrument in a quote | man | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | must · present | a deal of money | make property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deal in a quote | money | nom deal «act 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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