Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 52
Fancy paying two pice for this nonsense!
Who acts: Fancy · What happens: pay · To what, where: two pice, Fancy
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fancy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Fancy | acl |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pice | nummod |
| 4 | pice | pice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paying | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 nonsense | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 nonsense | det |
| 7 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paying | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | Fancy not said here | two pice | for this nonsense | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pice=Asset for nonsense=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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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