The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 39

'Nay, I did not kill your goat; it was Isuro, and he ate the meat, and hung the bones round my neck.

Who acts: I, baboon, Gudu · What happens: not kill, be, eat, hang · To what, where: goat, Isuro, meat, bones

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, baboon, Gudu), 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 kill	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	7 kill	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nay	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 kill	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 kill	advmod
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 goat	nmod:poss
9	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kill	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 Isuro	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Isuro	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Isuro	cop
13	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kill	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ate	nsubj
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Isuro	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 meat	det
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hung	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hung	cc
22	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ate	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bones	det
24	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hung	obj
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 neck	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 neck	nmod:poss
27	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hung	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not kill	past · do-support	I	your goat		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme
2	is a	past	baboon	Isuro		tree rules
3	eat	past	Gudu	the meat		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
4	hang	past	Gudu not said here	the bones	round my neck	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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: «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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