The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 5

“Well, then, lend me the ball for a little, and I will play by myself,” replied the lion, stretching out a paw as he spoke.

Who acts: lion · What happens: lend, play, reply, stretch out, speak · To what, where: ball, lion, paw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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	_	6 lend	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 lend	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lend	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 replied	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lend	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lend	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 little	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lend	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 play	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 play	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 play	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 play	aux
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lend	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 myself	case
19	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 play	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lend	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 lend	punct
22	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lion	det
24	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 replied	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stretching	punct
26	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 replied	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 stretching	compound:prt
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 paw	det
29	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stretching	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 spoke	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spoke	nsubj
32	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stretching	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lend in a quote	infinitive		the ball	the lion = lion	then	for a little	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ball=Theme
2	play in a quote	future	the lion = lion				by the lion = lion	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	reply speech: assert	past	the lion					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stretch out	gerund	the lion not said here	a paw				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
5	speak speech: other	past	lion					vn talk-37.5 «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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