The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 62

And you know yourself that, only last week, when I sent him to buy a cask of butter, he returned driving a hundred and fifty ducks which someone had induced him to take, and not one of them would lay.”

Who acts: you, I, husband, hundred ducks, one · What happens: know, send, buy, return, drive, induce · To what, where: yourself, husband, cask

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 (you, I, husband, hundred ducks), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 know	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 know	obj
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 yourself	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 week	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 week	advmod
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 week	amod
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 week	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 sent	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sent	nsubj
13	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 returned	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sent	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 buy	mark
16	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sent	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cask	det
18	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buy	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 butter	case
20	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cask	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 returned	nsubj
23	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	parataxis
24	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 returned	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hundred	det
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ducks	nummod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fifty	cc
28	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hundred	conj
29	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 induced	nsubj
30	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	31 someone	det
31	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 induced	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 induced	aux
33	induced	induce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 driving	ccomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 induced	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 take	mark
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 induced	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 lay	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lay	cc
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 one	advmod
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 lay	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 one	nmod
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 lay	aux
44	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	you	yourself	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus
2	send	past	I	husband	tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	husband not said here	a cask of butter	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Theme
4	return	past	husband		tree rules
5	drive	gerund	husband not said here		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
6	induce	past · perfect	hundred ducks	husband	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	take	to-infinitive	hundred ducks not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	lay	would	one of ducks		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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