The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 114

Already we have seen in the villages round about one or two damsels whose parents would gladly part with them for less than half the herd.

Who acts: we, parents · What happens: see, part · To what, where: villages

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, parents), 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	Already	already	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 villages	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 villages	det
7	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	obl
8	round	round	ADP	_	13 damsels	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 damsels	nummod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 two	cc
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 one	conj
13	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 part	obl
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 parents	nmod:poss
15	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 part	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 part	aux
17	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	18 part	advmod
18	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 part	nmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	26 herd	case
22	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 half	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 less	fixed
24	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	26 herd	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 herd	det
26	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 part	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	we			the villages			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	part	would	part's parents					round one damsels; with damsels = damsel; for half herd; gladly property	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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