The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 50

“If I let her go he must pay me a thousand head of cattle in exchange,” replied the old woman.

Who acts: old woman, Thakane, Masilo · What happens: let, go, pay, reply · To what, where: Thakane, thousand head, old woman, exchange · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, Thakane, Masilo), 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	_	20 replied	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 let	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 replied	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pay	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 pay	aux
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pay	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 head	det
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 head	nummod
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 cattle	case
15	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 head	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 exchange	case
17	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
20	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 replied	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the old woman = woman	Thakane			tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	Thakane not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pay in a quote	must	Masilo	a thousand head of cattle	the old woman = woman	exchange	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient head=Asset
4	reply speech: assert	past	the old woman				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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