English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 33
“Why, yes,” said the man, “I make a great deal of money, to be sure, and it is a wonderful instrument.”
Who acts: man, deal · What happens: say, make, be, deal · To what, where: great deal, wonderful instrument, 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 deal | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 deal | amod |
| 16 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 money | case |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deal | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sure | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sure | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sure | cop |
| 22 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 instrument | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 instrument | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 instrument | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 instrument | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 instrument | det |
| 28 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 instrument | amod |
| 29 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sure | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | the man = man | a great deal of money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Product | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | the man = man not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | deal | a wonderful instrument | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | 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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