The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 5

'No; I have the price with me,' replied the young man; laying down a handful of gold pieces. '

Who acts: I · What happens: have, reply, lay down · To what, where: price, young man, handful · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 have	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 price	det
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 price	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 laying	punct
17	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 replied	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 laying	compound:prt
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 handful	det
20	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laying	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 pieces	case
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pieces	compound
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 handful	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	the price	with me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient
2	reply speech: assert	past		the young man		tree rules
3	lay down	gerund		a handful of gold pieces		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Result

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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